A Redemptorist priest who works to console old soldiers in southern Vietnam has been ba-nned from flying to the United States for social safety.
On Oct. 24, Redemptorist Father Joseph Truong Hoang Vu was stopped by public security officers at Tan Son Nhat Inter-national Airport in Ho Chi Minh City while he was due to take a flight to Manila, the Philippines, and then to the US.
In a report issued by the airport’s public security unit, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Doan Van Dac said the 45-year-old priest was not allowed to leave the country for “reasons of social order and safety specified in Article 36 of the 2019 Immigra-tion Law.” The article presents those whose leaving for foreign countries is considered to affect national defence and security by government authorities.
Father Vu, who serves at Can Gio parish in the city, was asked to contact the Public Security Department in Ho Chi Minh City to deal with his complaints.
However, the priest, who was accompanied by two other Re-demptorists, reportedly returned home without filing a complaint about the ban.