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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 ...
Churches from this mission founded the Evangelical Church of Indochina in 1927. Due to the separation of the country in two in 1954, the latter was renamed the Evangelical Church of Vietnam North (ECVN), and officially recognized by the government in 1963. Southern churches founded the Evangelical Church of Vietnam South (SECV), recognized in 2001.
Catholic missions in Vietnam continued uninterrupted, but the most influential to make impact on the rise of Christian Church was Frenchman Alexandre de Rhodes. Father Alexandre had helped spreading Christianity, especially Catholicism in Vietnam; but the most was the creation of Vietnamese alphabet , called " Quốc Ngữ ", which would be ...
In 1967 there were 150,000 Protestant adherents in South Vietnam, representing about 1% of the total population. [4] Several Protestant church properties were confiscated during the communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975, including the seminaries in Nha Trang and Hanoi. Hundreds of Protestant churches were also destroyed in this period. [5]
After the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, the AG, like other churches, was suppressed. Churches were closed and property was confiscated by the communist government and membership dropped dramatically. The effect on the Assemblies of God was so great that a historian has referred to the years 1975-1988 as the "Silent Period". [6]
Protestant Christian faiths are well represented in Atlanta as the city is located in the Bible Belt, [3] the city historically being a major center for traditional Southern denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the United Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church Brookhaven: 1957 [14] 1954 St. Paul of the Cross Catholic Church Atlanta 1957 [15] 1958 Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church Atlanta 2006 [16] 1959 Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Decatur 1959 [17] 1960 St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church Atlanta 1962 [18] 1960 St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic ...
Grace Baptist Church in Ho Chi Minh City. The Baptist Churches in Vietnam has its origins in an American mission of the International Mission Board in 1959, in Ho Chi Minh City. [1] It is officially founded in 1989. [2] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 509 churches and 51,000 members. [3]