{"id":297101,"date":"2025-08-07T21:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/sister-of-heroic-vietnamese-cardinal-imprisoned-by-communists-tells-his-story\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:36:31","slug":"sister-of-heroic-vietnamese-cardinal-imprisoned-by-communists-tells-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/sister-of-heroic-vietnamese-cardinal-imprisoned-by-communists-tells-his-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister of heroic Vietnamese Cardinal imprisoned by Communists tells his story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Aug 6, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Elisabeth Nguyen Thi Thu Hong joins the podcast to tell the<br \/>\ninspiring story of her older brother, Venerable Francis-Xavier<br \/>\nNguyen Van Thuan, the heroic Vietnamese Cardinal who was imprisoned<br \/>\nby the Communists for 13 years, 8 of those in solitary confinement.<br \/>\nThuan was descended from a line of Vietnamese martyrs, and his<br \/>\nuncle was the devout Catholic President and Prime Minister of<br \/>\nVietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, who himself was something of a martyr.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan: Man of Joy and Hope<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ignatius.com\/cardinal-nguyen-van-thuan-cfntp\/\">https:\/\/ignatius.com\/cardinal-nguyen-van-thuan-cfntp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DONATE to make this show possible! <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP for Catholic Culture&#8217;s newsletter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/sister-of-heroic-vietnamese-cardinal-imprisoned-by-communists-tells-his-story\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 6, 2025 Elisabeth Nguyen Thi Thu Hong joins the podcast to tell the inspiring story of her older brother, Venerable Francis-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}