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jul 25, 1970 - Diversity in the Catholic Church

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Influx of Catholics, this time from Vietnam. After the communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 about 160,000 refugees, many of them ‘boat people’, arrived in Australia.

This saw the Catholic Church become more diverse and multicultural.

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jul 25, 1970
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~ 55 years ago