Catholics Ordered to Leave Disputed Land in Vietnam

(28 Aug 08 - RV) Vietnamese police have detained two people and ordered Catholics occupying a plot of disputed land in the capital to leave or face possible criminal charges. Hundreds of Vietnamese Catholics are holding a sit in on land they claim belongs to the Redemptorist Order but which the government insists is state property. Missionary Father Bernardo Cervellera is editor of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Mission news website Asianews, he says that the solution to the standoff lies in following the letter of the law: