Vietnam: Vietnamese Catholic refugees leaving Haiphong on the USS Montague for South Vietnam. Photo by Hemphill (public domain), 1 August 1954. After the end of the French rule in 1954s, Catholicism declined in the North, where the Communists regarded it as a reactionary force opposed to national liberation and social progress. In the South, by contrast, Catholicism was expanded under the presidency of Ngo Dinh Diem, who promoted it as an important bulwark against North Vietnam.

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