VC treo hình Hồ Chí Minh trong nhà thờ

Cộng sản Việt Nam tịch thu những hình ảnh, tượng, thánh giá trong nhà thờ và thay vào đó tấm hình Hồ Chí Minh. Thật là quái gở.

Vietnamese authorities replace chapel items with images of Ho Chi Minh

HANOI, Vietnam (CNS) -- Government authorities from a district in Vietnam's Central Highlands forced ethnic villagers to remove Catholic pictures and items from their chapel, and authorities replaced them with images of the late communist leader Ho Chi Minh. A church source told the Asian church news agency UCA News that government authorities from Kon Thuc hamlet, led by district security officials, visited the Catholics Aug. 12 after Mass and asked them to remove a cross and Marian image from the chapel. The source said authorities threatened to imprison the lay leader if Catholics from the leper village of Dak Pnan did not comply. Villagers had to carry the cross, Marian picture, altar and tabernacle to the lay leader's house, the source told UCA News. Authorities then put two pictures of Ho Chi Minh in the places where the cross and Marian picture had been. On Aug. 13, authorities dismantled the bell of the chapel after local Catholics refused to do it. The bell was also taken to the lay leader's house. One lay leader said authorities told parishioners that the building was to be used "for village activities, not for worship."

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Vietnamese officials hang Ho Chi Minh portrait in Catholic chapel

CWN - August 17, 2012

Communist officials compelled Catholics in a south-central Vietnamese village to remove the altar, tabernacle, cross, and Marian image from a Catholic chapel. The objects were taken to a lay Catholic leader’s home.

Stating that the chapel would henceforth be used “for village activities, not for worship,” officials placed a portrait of Communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) where the cross had been located.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=15266