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Two smiling boys, proud members of the Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement in the U.S.A, a national non-profit with 140 chapters in U.S. Vietnamese parishes. The movement helps educate elementary through high school-aged Vietnamese-American youth in the Catholic faith and helps them to become good citizens in society. A float carrying relics of 117 Vietnamese martyrs is part of a procession of Vietnamese Catholics through the streets of Carthage, Mo., during Marian Days held the first weekend of August. The Saturday afternoon procession culminates in an evening Mass on the campus of the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer.

About 700,000 strong, Vietnamese-American Catholics are working to pass their faith and culture on to the next generation.