AsiaNews, August 16, 2012 by Nguyen Hung The authorities in Hiếu Đạo confiscated the building 30 years ago and have not returned it yet. Nevertheless, the number of believers keeps on growing through conversions. “We are convinced that God will return the altar to us,” local bishop tells AsiaNews. Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews) –…

Compiled bo DVOV, August 3, 2012 In the morning of August 2, 2012, J.B Nguyen Huu Vinh, a journalist associated with the Catholic news media, was prevented from taking his ailing mother to Singapore for medical treatment. As soon as Mr. Vinh and his mother arrived at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi, two public security…

Radio Free Asia July 31, 2012 A Vietnamese court rejects a priest’s appeal as three bloggers await trial on similar charges An appeals court in Vietnam upheld an 11-year jail sentence imposed on a pastor of a banned church for “undermining unity” in the one-party state ahead of a trial next week of a group…

Stanford Law School July 25, 2012 STANFORD, Calif., July 25, 2012—Allen Weiner, director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law at Stanford Law School, today filed a petition with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) in Geneva contesting the illegal arrest and on-going detention of seventeen Vietnamese social and political…

Information compiled from from VRN On July 12, some one thousand children and adults gathering at the Catholic church in Cau Ram, Nghe An to start their free Summer English classes were told that the government had evicted all English instructors.    All five instructors are volunteers from America. Upon arrival to Vietnam, they were pulled into the police station…