my parents would offer traditional Vietnamese dishes to our ancestors on the family altar, asking them for their blessings. Then on Tet day, dressed up in our newest clothes, we'd go to the ...

Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong-kyun expressed his condolences Saturday over the death of former Vietnamese ...

There were few Vietnamese people in the area at the time, and procuring incense, sticky rice and other items for the altar was difficult. Finding someone who could raise and kill a whole chicken ...

Lien Le’s family fled Vietnam following the fall of Saigon. She now offers coaching for others dealing with inner trauma.

Home altars are particularly common in Vietnam, where nearly all adults have one. In the other places surveyed, no more than half of adults say they have a home altar, including just 6% of South ...

This spring marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon—an event many refugees call “the day we lost the country.” A turbulent postwar era followed, with South Vietnamese people suffering imprisonment and ...

She created the altar for the event using Vietnamese conical hats, incense and candles. In Vietnam, this time of year is celebrated as a day of liberation. Outside the communist nation it’s ...

In nearly every Vietnamese home is an altar for the family to honor relatives who have died. “The family of this soldier has been honoring him all this time, lighting incense, praying,” he said.

Two Vietnamese seminarians, Tuan Do and Joseph Nguyen, were ordained as deacons at St. Patrick Church in North Little Rock.

Growing up in Saigon, every eve of Lunar New Year, my parents would offer traditional Vietnamese dishes to our ancestors on the family altar, asking them for their blessings. Then on Tet day, dressed ...