Last year’s Geneva settlement was supposed to end the fighting in the three Indo-Chinese countries, but for one of them, sleepy, remote Laos,* it did nothing at all. Under Geneva’s terms, the Laotian ...

Servants of God Mario Borzaga and Paul Thoj Xyooj were killed in hatred of the faith in April 1960. Guerilla fighters of the Pathet Lao, the group which martyred Father Mario Borzaga and Paul Thoj ...

Trying to survive meant living in constant fear and being faced with difficult choices. At the end of the Secret War, Hmong women and children often surrendered to the Pathet Lao—but trying to survive ...

The country's longstanding ties with its neighbor Laos constitute an alliance in everything but name.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The fighting came over the mountain in 1959, the artillery so close it shook the family farm. The communist march into Laos was underway, with North Vietnam carving the Ho Chi Minh Trail to move ...

During a private audience on Tuesday, Pope Francis advanced the causes of canonization of 12 potential saints, two of whom were martyred by communist revolutionaries in Laos in 1960. The May 5 ...