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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]
At least 50% of the current Protestant population is composed of members of tribal groups; the Vietnamese government's treatments towards them is varied. [1] The tribal Protestants in Northern Vietnam do not face government persecution, but Protestant southern tribe members, notably the Hmong and H're, suffer from some religious persecution.
The Revised Vietnamese Version Bible (RVV11): This translation, published by the United Bible Societies (UBS), was published in 2010. It is not a new translation, but is a revision of the traditional 1925/1934 version, done by a UBS translation team to translate from the more archaic Vietnamese language to a more current Vietnamese language.
Seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries including Francisco de Pina, Gaspar do Amaral, Antonio Barbosa, and de Rhodes developed an alphabet for the Vietnamese language, using the Latin script with added diacritic marks. [34] This writing system continues to be used today, and is called chữ Quốc ngữ (literally "national language script").
William Cadman (4 April 1883 in Rotherhithe – 7 December 1948 in Da Lat) was an English missionary in Vietnam with his American wife Grace. William and his team printed the Bible in Hanoi, and his wife Grace was the primary translator of the Bible into Vietnamese, along with John Drange Olsen.
Before Rhodes's work, traditional Vietnamese dictionaries showed the correspondences between Chinese characters and Vietnamese chữ Nôm script. [1] From the 17th century, Western missionaries started to devise a romanization system that represented the Vietnamese language to facilitate the propagation of the Christian faith, which culminated in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et ...
4 languages. 한국어; Polski ... Protestant missionaries in Vietnam (3 P) V. Vietnamese Protestants (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Protestantism in Vietnam"
In 1996, from a mission by a Korean-American pastor, a Christian group emerged in Ho Chi Minh City. [4] One of the group's members, Ho Tan Khoa, became pastor and founded the United Presbyterian Church of Vietnam in 1998.