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State-established Vietnamese Patriotic Catholic Association collapses
November 24, 2008
Efforts by Vietnamese officials to form a government-sponsored group similar to China's "Catholic Patriotic Association" have apparently failed. A November 19-20 meeting of the "Vietnam Committee for Solidarity of Catholics" drew only a handful of attendees, who acknowledged that the goal of setting up a religious organization taking direction from the Communist Party rather than the Holy See is "completely impossible" in Vietnam today.
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