His Vietnamese birth name means “one with a promising future.” But with hunger, religious persecution and two imprisonments by Vietnam’s anti-clerical communist regime riddling the first 36 years of his life, Christian Brother John Mai couldn’t help but occasionally see his moniker as a cruel joke
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom
Christian Brother is ‘14th-time lucky’ in quest for freedom