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He fled Vietnam in a boat, now he's breaking new ground as a bishop ...
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Twenty-six years ago, Vincent Nguyen was a boy dreaming of freedom and a chance to become a priest when he and 19 relatives piled into a wooden fishing boat and prayed they would evade Vietnam's coastal patrol and slip out to sea. Tomorrow, Father Nguyen will become Canada's first Catholic ...
Father Nguyen Van Ly accused of propaganda against the government
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After receiving confirmation that Father Nguyen Van Ly has been placed under house arrest in Hue, Reporters Without Borders called on the Vietnamese authorities to rescind this measure, which deprives him of all his freedom. Last released under an amnesty in February 2005, Ly risks being kept under ...
VIETNAM Father Nguyen Van Ly arrested again - AsiaNews
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Hue (AsiaNews) - Father Nguyen Van Ly, the priest among the founding members of "Bloc 8406", a movement that demands the end of the single party in Vietnam has been arrested again. Imprisoned in (photo: the trial) with a sentence of eight years, he was released in March last year because of his ...
Vietnam: Poet, essayist, scholar Father Nguyen Van Ly conditionally ...
www.pen-international.org
26 May Update #2 to RAN PEN International welcomes the early release of poet, essayist, scholar and Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly. Father Nguyen Van Ly had been serving an eight-year prison sentence for 'conducting propaganda against the state' and was due for release in June ...
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