New book recounts priest’s journey to freedom

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Wednesday, 11/07/2012

fr breadwaterPersuading Father Tien Duong to tell his story was a hard sell. It had all the right ingredients: a Catholic priest who grew up in the hardship of Communist Vietnam and who escaped to the U.S. in a dangerously crowded fishing boat clinging only to his faith.

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