The hyperbole used in the mainstream media reports paled in comparison to the outpouring by the American Catholic press. The migration was given front page coverage in America's diocesan newspapers. The accounts were often sensationalist, demonizing the communist Viet Minh as religious persecutors who committed barbaric atrocities against Catholics.[62] Our Sunday Visitor called the "persecution" in Vietnam "the worst in history",[62][63] alleging that the Viet Minh engaged in "child murder and cannibalism".[62][63] San Francisco's Monitor told of a priest whom the Viet Minh "beat with guns until insensible and then buried alive in a ditch".[62][64] Newark's The Advocate posted an editorial cartoon titled "Let Our People Go!",[62][65] depicting mobs of Vietnamese refugees attempting to break through a blood-laced fence of barbed wire. Milwaukee's Catholic Herald Citizen described two priests who had been chained together and "suffered atrocious and endless agony".[62][66] Other papers depicted the Viet Minh blowing up churches, torturing children and gunning down elderly Catholics. One paper proclaimed that "the people of Vietnam became a crucified people and their homeland a national Golgotha".[62] The Catholic media also ran stories about Buddhist refugees who converted, hailing it as proof of their religion's superiority.[
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