Decades after the Vietnam War, US soldiers are returning to the country but on a very different mission – to help their former adversaries find the burial sites of their missing comrades. Where ...

The battle at Firebase Bird. By 1966, Vietnam’s civil war had been raging for more than a decade, and US involvement had grown from a smattering of military advisers and special forces to a ...

Catholics from Vietnam at Mass with Pope Francis in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Sept. 3, 2023. Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Harassment of Catholic communities also increased in 2022, according to the ...

Today, sacred music has transcended church walls. Hymns like And My Heart Is Happy Again by Father Thành Tâm or Prayer of ...

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago ... Catholic nuns walking past lime-caked ... this South Vietnamese woman mourned her husband, one of 47 people who had been found in a mass grave. Image.

Harassment of Catholic communities also increased in 2022, according to the USCIRF report. In Hoa Binh province, local officials disrupted a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Joseph Vu Van Thien of Hanoi.

By 1966, Vietnam’s civil war had been raging for more than a decade, and US involvement had grown from a smattering of military advisers and special forces to a sprawling army of 400,000.