Three men: Joseph Jia, SJ, Gu Min De, SJ, and Mu Ya Hung, Moye, were ordained to the diaconate and Rev. Joseph Dang Do Nhan, SJ, to the priesthood in Taiwan on 04 July 2020.
After completing two years at the Sacred Heart Novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Vietnam for the first stage of Jesuit formation, 13 novices took their first simple but perpetual vows on the Solemnity of Pentecost at the chapel of St. Joseph Jesuit Scholasticate in Thu Duc, Hochiminh City, Vietnam on May 31, 2020.
On Saturday, 23 May 2020, Fr. Vincent Pham Van Mam, SJ, Provincial of the Vietnam Province, together with Vietnamese Jesuits, celebrated a special memorial Mass to pray for Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, former Superior General of the Society of Jesus who passed away in Tokyo, Japan on 20 May 2020.