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.
Additional sources for this story: Ho Chi Minh portrait replaces cross (UCA News) www.ucanews.com/2012/08/16/ho-chi-minh-portrait-replaces-chapel-cross/
This is what happens when the US breaks and runs after years of fighting the communist menace from the north. Having served at DaNang AB during the ’67-’68 Tet offensive, I hold the politicians in Washington personally responsible for the loss of lives sustained by both the US and South Vietnamese forces during this tragic war and for the aftermath – the bloodbath that followed when Ho Chi Minh sent his forces down into the south to eliminate not only the South Vietnamese political structure but the influence of Catholicism as well. May God have Mercy on their souls.
Just so that people know about the peasants – they will follow whatever leadership allows them food and shelter. They are the real victims of this unholy war. And one other thing- the US had the ability to end the war in an instant if it used the weapons and strategy available to it. I know the capability of US airpower and so do the communists as long as there are no sanctuaries for their leadership – no off-limits areas for US forces.
at first I thought they hang Ho Chi Minh
Sounds a lot like what the wreckovators did to U.S. Catholic churches in the 1970s.