Joachim Pham

Joachim Pham has been a National Catholic Reporter correspondent since December 2013 and regularly contributes to Global Sisters Report. He is based in Vietnam.

 

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Sisters' clinic extends lifeline to ethnic patients in central Vietnam

Dominican Sisters of St. Rose of Lima started their ministries in Gia Lai Province in 2005. Now, 26 nuns from five communities provide pastoral, educational and health care services for ethnic villagers. 

Lovers of the Holy Cross of Hue Sr. Anna Nguyen Thi Hien, center, serves chao to patients' relatives in the hospital yard of Quang Tri General Hospital. (Joachim Pham)

Vietnamese sisters feed hospitalized patients and their weary relatives

The Lovers of the Holy Cross of Hue began their food ministry after they visited patients and found the relatives looking half-starved, thin and tired because of missed meals.

Vietnamese sisters in Kontum Diocese host summer schools for ethnic students

Lay Catholics in Vietnam strengthen faith via eucharistic adoration

Q & A with Sr. Marie Cu Thi Quynh Hoa on serving her Hmong community

Recognized for high quality, preschool run by Catholic sisters in Vietnam grows by leaps

Farmers benefit from organic farming initiated by sisters

Child workers in Vietnam stay safer knowing labor rights, self-defense tactics

Dominican sisters educate struggling child laborers in Vietnam slums

Religious and social groups in Vietnam support people living with HIV/AIDS

Wheelchair ministry in Vietnam frees people to earn a living

Q & A with Sr. Mary Tran Le Trinh, caring for children with disabilities

Filling education gaps, sisters help Khmer children in Vietnam

Sisters in Vietnam refuse government order to turn over convent lands

Sisters injured in property dispute in Vietnam's capital

Ethnic sisters help preserve minority cultures in Vietnam

St. Teresa Hostel in Vietnam shelters ethnic students to boost their education

Sisters visit mountain villages for first time in decades, bringing Easter tidings

Q & A with Sr. Mary Nguyen Thi Nhiem, serving ethnic villagers after a struggle to pursue her vocation

Before Tet festival, sisters train Vietnamese to avoid unsafe food