Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang highlighted Vietnam’s consistent policy of respecting and protecting the right to freedom of belief and religion for all people, while meeting with UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif in his recent trip to Switzerland.

The right to freedom of religion is enshrined in the Constitution, and protects the rights and respect of people’s interests, along with the rights and legitimate interests of one another.

VOV.VN - President To Lam received dignitaries of 43 religious organisations of 16 religions that have been recognized in Vietnam, in Hanoi on June 13.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a ritual marking Lord Buddha’s birth anniversary at Quan Su pagoda, the headquarters of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, in Hanoi on May 22 morning.

The consistent policy of the Vietnamese Party and State in ensuring people's right to freedom of belief has been enshrined in the country's Constitutions issued in 1946, 1959, 1980, 1992 and 2013, creating favourable conditions for all religions in the country.

Vietnam is a country with religious and belief diversity. The Vietnamese Party and State have always pursued a consistent policy of respecting and ensuring the right to freedom of belief and religion, and promoting good cultural and moral values and resources of religions in service of national development.

Freedom of belief and religion is a basic human right recognized and protected by International Human Rights Law and the Constitutions of most countries, including Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Some organizations like the US Committee for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) have recently made biased statements and distorted the truth regarding freedom of religion in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The relations between Vietnam and the Vatican have developed positively in recent times, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh said while receiving Under-Secretary for the Holy See’s Relations with States Monsignor Miroslaw Stanislaw Wachowski in Hanoi on April 22.

VOV.VN - The US Department of State released last month its 2020 International Religious Freedom Report which stated that some religious groups in Vietnam are not recognized by the State and are bothered, intervened, or restricted by local authorities.