Cardinal Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, whose agonizing account of imprisonment by the communists in Vietnam made him an inspirational figure for many Catholics in his homeland, died Monday. He was ...

In 2007, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung became the first Vietnamese leader to meet the pope at the Vatican, marking a symbolic opening. Two years later, the two sides established a Joint Working Group ...

The beatification cause of Venerable Francis-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan is receiving renewed attention from the Vatican 50 years after he was first imprisoned by the communist government of Vietnam, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Cardinal Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, whose agonizing account of imprisonment by the communists in Vietnam made him an inspirational figure for many Catholics in his homeland ...

COMMENTARY: The Vietnamese cardinal, who died 20 years ago Sept. 16, is one of the greatest Eucharistic witnesses of modern times. Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson of Ghana celebrates the ...

Soon after Saigon — that once loveliest of cities, formerly known as the Paris of the Orient — fell to the advancing forces of the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975, thus signaling the end of an ...

Doctors said Joseph Nguyen was dead. His heart rate was dropping beyond recovery, and all brain activity was gone. But while they wrote his death certificate, Joseph's parents were asking an old ...

The Vatican’s recent call to revive the beatification cause of Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan is more than an internal Church affair. It is a gesture that intersects with history, politics, ...

If canonized, Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan would stand alongside the 117 Vietnamese martyrs canonized in 1988. His sainthood would affirm that holiness can emerge from the prison cell as powerfully as ...