An American archbishop has joined his counterparts in Vietnam to mark the opening of the first college-level Catholic school in the country in about 40 years.
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, who travelled on behalf of the US bishops’ conference, said he wanted Vietnamese Catholics to know “they are not forgotten”.
“The Church in Vietnam has suffered hardships and religious repression, and slowly over these 40 years there are some headways that have been made,” the archbishop told Catholic News Service.
