For the Catholic communities along the coastline devastated by the Formosa marine disaster in 2016, the "common home" described by Pope Francis in Laudato Si' remains a place of profound brokenness.
An investigation approved by the Vatican concluded that Fr. Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep was killed by two Japanese deserters seeking revenge after Japan's defeat in World War II.
In central Vietnam's Quang Tri province, once one of the fiercest battlefields of the Vietnam War, workers walk the land finding hidden unexploded ordnance.
