Now that Vietnam has been included in the WTO and the US State Dept. has removed it from the region blacklist, many fear the governing Communist regime is reverting to its old ways of religious suppression. Catholic activists have been jailed and, at the end of September, 150 monks were forced out of their Zen monastery (Bat Nha) by police. 200 nuns left on their own.
Father Huynh Cong Minh from the Archdiocese of Saigon says that ''like it or not, the Catholics in the world are organised and that is what the communist government fears the most."
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