Vietnam: The Long Road To Freedom
An edited version of an article by Fr Bernardo Cervellera PIME of FIDES that appeared in
World Mission
Pope John Paul in Manila in 1995 called on all Asian Catholics to evangelize their continent, the one with the smallest percentage of Christians in the world. This invitation certainly involves the Philippines but also the 8,000,000 Catholics of Vietnam who form ten per cent of the population there, the third largest percentage in the continent.