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John 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It maintains the previous chapter 's theme "Jesus is light", [ 1 ] recording the healing of an unnamed man who had been blind from birth , a miracle performed by Jesus , and their subsequent dealings with the Pharisees . [ 2 ]
Their agent Walter J. James completed Mark, John, and Acts, but government leaders restricted distribution. [4] The first translation from Greek, and still the standard Protestant Vietnamese version, Kinh Thánh Bản Truyền Thống, was principally done by Grace Hazenberg Cadman and John Drange Olsen (New Testament 1923, Old Testament 1926).
Vietnam has the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia, after the Philippines, India, China and Indonesia. There are about 7 million Catholics in Vietnam, representing 7.4% of the total population. [1] There are 27 dioceses (including three archdioceses) with 2,228 parishes and 2,668 priests. [2]
Christianity was first introduced to Vietnam in the 16th century. [1] Christians represent a significant minority in Vietnam: Catholics and Protestants were reported to compose 7% and 2% of the country's population respectively in 2020. However, the real number of Christian in Vietnam is 10% to 12%.
The earliest forms of Vietnamese religious practice were animistic and totemic in nature. [11] The decorations on Đông Sơn bronze drums, generally agreed to have ceremonial and possibly religious value, [nb 2] depict the figures of birds, leading historians to believe birds were objects of worship for the early Vietnamese.
John-Nhan Tran was born in the Bình Giã district of South Vietnam on February 6, 1966, to Dung Van Tran and Lai Thi Nguyen. [3] [4] When Tran was two years old, his mother was shot and killed during the Vietnam War. Tran's older brother was also killed by a land mine. [5] When Tran was nine, his family fled from Saigon, South Vietnam on a ...
In November 2006, the Cua Bac Catholic Church in Hanoi became the venue of joint worship service of the Vietnamese Catholics and Protestants with participation of the United States president George W. Bush, who was on an official visit to Vietnam. Cua Bac Church (Northern Gate Church) has regular sermons and services in the English language and ...
The history of the Jews in Vietnam begins in the 19th century.Jews are a minor ethno-religious group in Vietnam, consisting of only about 300 people as of 2007. [1] Although Jews have been present in Vietnam and Judaism has been practiced since the late 19th century, most adherents have been, and remain today, expatriates, with few to no native Vietnamese converts.