Reporter in Vietnam

Reporter in Vietnam regularly contributes to National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report. This reporter is based in Vietnam.

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A wooden statue depicting Fr. Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep stands at the Tac Say Pilgrimage Center. Diep, who was martyred in 1946 and is to be beatified July 2 at the center in southern Ca Mau province, Vietnam. (Reporter in Vietnam)

Vatican sets beatification for Vietnamese priest long believed slain by communists

An investigation approved by the Vatican concluded that Fr. Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep was killed by two Japanese deserters seeking revenge after Japan's defeat in World War II. 

A female deminer carries out a search for unexploded ordnance in an abandoned garden in Cam Lo, Quang Tri province, Vietnam, on Aug. 28. (NCR photo)

Removing unexploded ordnance, workers bring life back to Vietnam's 'dead land'

In central Vietnam's Quang Tri province, once one of the fiercest battlefields of the Vietnam War, workers walk the land finding hidden unexploded ordnance.

 

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