Posted on 03/29/2023 6:27:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
Local govt officials, accompanied by security staff, stormed an 'illegal chapel' when a service was in progress
A diocese in Vietnam has strongly protested against government authorities for breaking up a Mass held in a house.
In an official letter to Kon Tum provincial and Ngoc Hoi district officials in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, Kontum diocese strongly condemned what it called the “heinous offense against the sanctity of the Mass.”
“Their actions are deeply distressing and hurting our brothers and sisters from the subparish, as well as all priests and laypeople in the diocese and other places," Father Peter Le Van Hung, head of the Office of the Kontum Bishop’s House, said in a statement on March 27.
Local government officials, accompanied by security staff, stormed a house where Father Francis Xavier Le Tien was celebrating a Mass attended by many Catholics on March 22.
The officials accused Tien, pastor of Dak Giac parish, of celebrating religious services at an unrecognized chapel.
Religious activities are restricted in the mountainous province of Kon Tum, home to tens of ethnic groups. Many in the province, bordering Laos and Cambodia, live in poverty and far away from parish churches.
Most churches in the area were ruined during the Vietnam War (1955-1975).
(Excerpt) Read more at ucanews.com ...
All this two days after that gender confused miscreant shot up the school in Nashville.
the War Against Christianity is ramping up
In Vietnam it seems that things get looser and people have more freedom and the Church less government intrusion when there is a Republican president here- and Clinton who started the ball rolling in the only useful thing he accomplished. Republicans exert diplomatic pressure on VN to lighten up and VN responds, wanting to be America’s friend in SEA and to gain America’s aid in resisting China. Democrats can’t stand countries that look up to The USA.
We warned the liberals/leftists what would happen to the people of S Vietnam if the commies won but they didn’t give a dam.
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