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Encyclopedia: Nguyen Van Thuan
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Since his uncle was Ngo Dinh Diem, the assassinated South Vietnamese president, Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan was known by every Vietnamese Catholic.
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Cardinal François Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan Nguyen Van Thuan died of cancer on September 16, 2002 in a clinic in Rome. He was 74.
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Total damage for the capital city were estimated at VND3 trillion (US$176 million). According to Nguyen Van Thuan, head of the city's Steering Board for Storm and Flood Control and Rescue, the water levels of rivers in the capital is continuing to rise, including water levels for the Hong, Nhue and Cau rivers.
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Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan was born on April 17, 1928 in the central part of Vietnam, in Phu Cam parish, a suburb of Hue.
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The life of the late Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan (1928-2002) was a true and well-credentialled witness to the words of the late Holy Father, Pope John Paul II: "We were born from the Eucharist.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on François Xavier Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan:Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate (b. April 17, 1928, Phu Cam, French Indochina—d. Sept. 16, 2002, Rome, Italy), François Xavier Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan. (2008). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved July 04,
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Cardinal Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan President of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace Cardinal F.X Nguyen Van Thuan was born at Phu Cam in the diocese of Hue, Province of Thua Thien, Vietnam, on April l7, l928. He was the eldest of 8: 3 boys and 5 girls.
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Although the funeral of Cardinal Van Thuan was celebrated in September, we wish to recall here the words of the Pope, in the light of the witness of life that this man has left to us in the Church.
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