VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang on March 2 received Franklin Graham, President and CEO of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and President of international relief organisation Samaritan’ Purse.
VOV.VN - The US' inclusion of Vietnam on the "Special Watch List for Religious Freedom" is based on inaccurate information about freedom of religion and belief in Vietnam.
Religions have never had such favourable conditions for their activities in Vietnam like now, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang stressed in a recent writing.
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 - Two US organisations recently released their annual reports, in which they make slanderous accusations of religious freedom in Vietnam in an attempt to exert influence and put political and foreign pressure on the country.
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 - Taking advantage of the Government’s policy of religious freedom, an outlawed organisation called Duong Van Minh belief has carried out many illegal activities, enticing thousands of Mong ethnic people into the group and causing chaos to life in northern mountainous provinces.
Throughout the “Doi moi” process, the belief and religious life in Vietnam has changed towards greater freedom and progress and the right to belief and religious freedom better protected, which has been recognised by the international community.
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.
VOV.VN - Taking unfair advantage of religion to further political activities, boosting those aiming to overthrow the Government, and actions which threaten unity should not be tolerated by any country, not just in Vietnam.