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Clarifies Pope’s Words Among Government Distortion
HANOI, Vietnam, SEPT. 1, 2009 (Zenit.org).- A blogger protesting how the Vietnamese government distorted Benedict XVI’s address to bishops of the nation has been arrested.
Bui Thanh Hieu, a catechumen blogger defending the Church in Vietnam, was arrested last Thursday, VietCatholic News reported. It claimed others face the same risk of arrest for their “swift reactions against the distortion of Pope Benedict XVI’s speech to Vietnamese bishops on their [June 27] ad limina visit.”
On Aug. 24, Vietnam Net, a state media outlet, published an article titled “A Good Catholic Is a Good Citizen,” citing Benedict XVI in such a way that it gave the idea that the Pope himself had “insulted the Church in Vietnam” for “spiritual corruption,” Father Joseph Nguyen of Hanoi told AsiaNews.
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HANOI, Vietnam, SEPT. 1, 2009 (Zenit.org).- A blogger protesting how the Vietnamese government distorted Benedict XVI’s address to bishops of the nation has been arrested.
Bui Thanh Hieu, a catechumen blogger defending the Church in Vietnam, was arrested last Thursday, VietCatholic News reported. It claimed others face the same risk of arrest for their “swift reactions against the distortion of Pope Benedict XVI’s speech to Vietnamese bishops on their [June 27] ad limina visit.”
On Aug. 24, Vietnam Net, a state media outlet, published an article titled “A Good Catholic Is a Good Citizen,” citing Benedict XVI in such a way that it gave the idea that the Pope himself had “insulted the Church in Vietnam” for “spiritual corruption,” Father Joseph Nguyen of Hanoi told AsiaNews.
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