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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Jun 01, 2020

In Vietnam's aging society, homeless women find shelter with nuns

In Vietnam, cultural change and family crises are leaving more elderly people abandoned and living in poverty on the streets. In Da Nang, Elderly Loving Home offers refuge to elderly women.

Sr. Anna Nguyen Thi Hien (third from left), another sister and lay volunteers offer flowers to Venerable Thich Tam Quang, a Buddhist monk and clinic director, at Hai Duc Clinic on May 6. (Joachim Pham)

May 11, 2020

Sisters in Vietnam show solidarity with Buddhists during Vesak festival

Answering a call from the Hue archbishop, Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception and volunteers visited pagodas to bring gifts and good wishes for the Buddhist holiday, quiet this year because of COVID-19.

Jesuit Fr. Thomas Vu Quang Trung and Sisters of Providence of Tay Nguyen, Vietnam, pose for a photo at their convent. (Joachim Pham)

Jan 14, 2020

Q & A with Jesuit Fr. Thomas Vu Quang Trung on sisters' status in Vietnam

Fr. Thomas Vu Quang Trung, who was executive secretary of the Vietnamese bishops' Committee on Consecrated Life for nine years, talks with GSR about sisters' ministries and challenges in the local church.

Dec 05, 2019

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)

Sep 16, 2019

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.