Pope Leo met with the socialist Vice President of Vietnam at the Vatican. Vietnam is a country where Catholics make up about 7% of the population, and its relationship with the Holy See has experienced many ups and downs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2023, a historic event took place. For the first time since 1975, when diplomatic ties were broken, the Holy See appointed a papal representative to Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During Pope Francis\u2019s pontificate, the two states significantly strengthened their relationship. Just months after the agreement was finalized, the country\u2019s then-president even traveled to the Vatican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pope Francis was asked several times about Vietnam. On the return flight from Mongolia, he was asked whether he ever planned to visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The next pope turned out not to be Pope John XXIV, but is Pope Leo XIV. On the day he was elected, Vietnam\u2019s current president sent him a congratulatory message. What remains unknown for now is whether the Vice President extended an official invitation to the new pope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CA Pope Leo met with the socialist Vice President of Vietnam at the Vatican. Vietnam is a country where Catholics make up about 7% of the population, and its relationship with the Holy See has experienced many ups and downs. In 2023, a historic event took place. For the first time since 1975, when diplomatic ties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":78700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fLPI025utyM","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bvicepresidentevietnamint.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bvicepresidentevietnamint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78705,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78699\/revisions\/78705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Then a trip to Vietnam\u2014if I don\u2019t go, surely John XXIV will\u2026 He\u2019ll definitely go, because it\u2019s a country that deserves to move forward, and it has my sympathy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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