Vietnam's Thien An monastery is shown in an undated photo.
Posted on 01/06/2018 5:37:11 PM PST by marshmallow
Vietnam's Thien An monastery is shown in an undated photo.
Leaders of a Catholic monastery in north-central Vietnam’s Thua Thien Hue province are protesting authorities’ interference in the life of their community, accusing local officials of seeking to have their senior priest removed from his office, sources say.
In a Dec. 31 letter sent to top-level authorities in the province, priests at Thien An asserted their legal right to construct buildings on nearby village land owned and managed by the church since the 1940s.
They also accused members of the Thua Thien Hue People’s Committee of abusing their power by proposing the transfer to another province of monastery head Father Nguyen Van Duc, who had protested the seizure last year of monastery land.
By declaring in a Dec. 23 report to higher-ups that Duc had broken the law, the province’s People’s Committee had offended the dignity of the priest and had illegally interfered in the monastery’s internal affairs, the priests’ letter said.
Founded by French missionaries in June 1940, Thien An monastery is home to a community of priests, nuns, and seminarians who perform pastoral activities in three different churches.
In June, police dressed in plain clothes attacked Thien An priests and their followers when the Catholics attempted to defend a cross they had put up on land claimed by the church, sources told RFA in earlier reports.
“They threw stones at the priests and beat three or four of them,” one source said, adding that the attackers were accompanied by women and unidentified civilians who helped police to pull down the cross.
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I don’t know if this is the same story which was covered about a month ago. It seems quite similar. Both were off a small parish in northern Vietnam. Seems very similar.
However this was extensively rewritten to paint a (much) different story.
The story a month ago was of a standoff between the church, and local officials, over some land the church was claiming, but the government was not approving.
However this almost seems like the same story.
Is it?
All communist regimes are evil. Good thing that Trump is president otherwise dear leader Obama will turn this great country into another communist experiment.
Look at where EVERYTHING you buy is made.
Go ahead. Look.
The name of the country starts with the “People’s Republic of ...”. And the name is not Vietnam. The name is CHINA, and they have almost five times America’s population.
China is the real problem.
We fought that war to prevent THIS.
In the sense that this religious community has spoken out for their rights, America’s involvement there has worked to that extent.
There will yet come a time when we will be able to say that we won the War in Vietnam.
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