Hanoi: Police Disrupt Catholic Procession, 20 Hospitalized

Hanoi, Sep. 1, 2008 (CWNews.com) - At least 20 Vietnamese Catholics were hospitalized on August 31 after police in Hanoi disrupted a religious procession at an embattled Redemptorist monastery, spraying a priest, altar boys, and lay people with tear gas at close range. The Sunday-night police raid was the latest in a series of confrontations at the site of the Redemptorist monastery, where Catholic activists have been protesting the government's seizure of Church-owned property. In Catholic churches around Hanoi, priests had read a statement at every Sunday Mass, asking the government "not to use any sort of violence against the...

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