Today, April 26, Minister of Ethnic and Religious Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung signed an electronic condolence book addressed to the Representative Office of the Holy See of the Vatican in Vietnam, paying tribute to Pope Francis, who recently passed away.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son offered condolences as Vietnam mourns the late pope.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang and Under-Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See Monsignor Miroslaw Wachowski co-chaired the 11th annual meeting of the Vietnam – Holy See Joint Working Group in Hanoi on May 17.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception for visiting Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations, in Hanoi on April 10.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son met with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Vatican Secretary of State, in Ha Noi on April 9.

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations of the Vatican, will visit Vietnam from April 9-14 at the invitation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam.