Reporter in Vietnam

Reporter in Vietnam regularly contributes to National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report. This reporter is based in Vietnam.

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Mary Magdalene Vu Thi Tue (center, in denim jacket) sells fish to customers in Quang Tri, Vietnam, on April 22, 2026. At left is the fishing boat her family recently repaired after years of abandonment following the Formosa disaster. (Reporter in Vietnam)

Vietnamese sisters help survivors of Formosa environmental disaster rebuild lives

Ten years after the environmental disaster that devastated Vietnam's central coast and affected thousands of fishing families, women religious focus on livelihoods, accompaniment and long-term healing.

Thi Mai sells fish at a market in Hue, Vietnam, on Apr. 4, 2026. She echoes a sentiment common among locals who believe the chemical alteration of the water after the Formosa marine disaster has stunted the growth and quality of the catch. (Photo: Reporter in Vietnam)

Vietnam's coastal Catholics hold the scars of Formosa disaster 10 years later

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.

A wooden statue depicting Fr. Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep stands at the Tac Say Pilgrimage Center. Diep, who was martyred in 1946 and is to be beatified July 2 at the center in southern Ca Mau province, Vietnam. (Reporter in Vietnam)

Vatican sets beatification for Vietnamese priest long believed slain by communists

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. 

A female deminer carries out a search for unexploded ordnance in an abandoned garden in Cam Lo, Quang Tri province, Vietnam, on Aug. 28. (NCR photo)

Removing unexploded ordnance, workers bring life back to Vietnam's 'dead land'

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.

 

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