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HANOI (AFP) — A row between Vietnam’s communist regime and the country’s Catholic community deepened Friday when authorities began building a public park on land claimed by the Church.
The prime site in the heart of the capital Hanoi was the Vatican’s embassy before it was taken over by the city’s communist rulers following the departure of the French in the 1950s.
Police blocked the street next to the site Friday and dozens of priests, nuns and monks looked on as work began. Bulldozers occupied the land and a fence had been knocked down, an AFP journalist saw.
HANOI (AFP) — A row between Vietnam’s communist regime and the country’s Catholic community deepened Friday when authorities began building a public park on land claimed by the Church.
The prime site in the heart of the capital Hanoi was the Vatican’s embassy before it was taken over by the city’s communist rulers following the departure of the French in the 1950s.
Police blocked the street next to the site Friday and dozens of priests, nuns and monks looked on as work began. Bulldozers occupied the land and a fence had been knocked down, an AFP journalist saw.