AsiaNews: Before dying from stomach cancer, he wanted to become, as he put it, a ‘son of God’ by joining the Catholic Church.
A few days later after his baptism, on the evening of 4 April, he died peaceful surrounded by the affection of his family, after spending his last two years in a Vietnamese prison.
The death of high school teacher Dinh Dang Dinh, one of Vietnam’s best-known dissidents, caused great distress among those who knew and admired his courage and life story. More on this here.
