Religious freedom for Vietnam

President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam visits the White House on Thursday, and this is a providential occasion for President Obama to speak up for religious liberty.


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Huge Vietnamese Catholic church to be dedicated in Arlington

Grandeur counts when building a Vietnamese church, especially when the current place of worship is a converted Food Lion grocery store.
"A church's size and quality is basically the best of everything the people can offer to God," said Khiet Nguyen, whose architectural firm designed the 2,000-seat Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church in east Arlington. "A Food Lion church is not good enough. We hope this is good enough."

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Vietnam Catholics stage rare protest

Up to 150 Vietnamese Catholics staged a rare public protest Friday after communist authorities moved in to build a sewage reservoir that protesters say is on church land. The protesters, some in clerical garb, marched peacefully around Hoan Kiem lake, a popular meeting spot in the city centre, singing and waving signs that read: "give back the land to the church," an AFP reporter saw.

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World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, Spain

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Falungong says two members to be tried in Vietnam

HANOI - TWO Vietnamese Falungong practitioners are to face trial for allegedly beaming spiritual broadcasts into China, where the movement is banned and labelled an 'evil cult', their lawyer said on Wednesday.


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Vietnam Authorities Move to Stop Protestant Christmas Events

HANOI, Vietnam (Compass Direct News) – In what appeared to be part of a central government crackdown on Protestant Christianity in Vietnam, hundreds of Christians from 10 northern provinces were locked out of a Christmas celebration that was supposed to take place here on Sunday.

The throngs who arrived at the National Convention Center (NCC) in the Tu Kiem district of Hanoi for the Christmas event found the doors locked and a phalanx of police trying to send them away, sources said. Deeply disappointed, some of the Christians began singing and praying in the square in front to the center, they said.
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Vietnam's Monkey Police Beat Pastor, Destroy Bible School

 Police in Vietnam recently beat and arrested a Mennonite pastor before destroying his home and Bible school.
    
Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang is a human rights lawyer and chairman of the Vietnam Evangelical Fellowship.
On Tuesday, security officials raided the Bible school in Ho Chi Minh City and took Quang into custody. One eyewitness risked their freedom to take cell phone pictures of the scene. Read the full article.

Vietnamese security police torture Degar Christian

On September 2, 2010 at approximately 8 am our Christian Brother Siu Phot reported to Vietnamese police from Ia Piar commune. Siu Phot was born in 1979 and from Ploi Robai, village, Ia Piar commune, Phu Thien district in Gia Lai province, Vietnam. Siu Phot was responding to a written summons he had received from the police a day before. When Siu Phot arrived at the police station, 9 security police were waiting for him outside of the building. He recognized 3 of them and their names are as follows:


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Vietnam police charge six villagers over Catholic funeral

Hanoi - Police in the central Vietnamese city of Danang have charged six villagers who participated in an unauthorized Catholic funeral with public disorder, police and local sources said Tuesday.

The charges stem from a May 4 clash between police and Catholic parishioners trying to perform a burial in a cemetery that authorities have closed and slated for a tourism development.

The clash is the latest in a series of recent land disputes between Vietnamese government agencies and Catholic churches and parishioners.

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Vietnam-born US lawmaker pleads for religious freedom

WASHINGTON — The sole Vietnamese American member of the US Congress deplored Tuesday what he called worsening repression in his native country and appealed for pressure on Hanoi to respect religious freedom.

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Tai sao khong duoc den tham dan Dong Chiem?

Tin nóng Dong Chiem

Vietnam's underground churches

In Vietnam, freedom of religion is officially protected by the constitution.

But followers of faiths not sanctioned by the state could be subject to persecution.

One such faith is the protestant strand of Christianity.

Al Jazeera gained exclusive access to one underground church, where worshippers practice in secret.

 

Monks under pressure by Vietnamese government

Watch the report about the Bat Nha monastery.
In late September a violent mob drove Buddhist monks and nuns from Bat Nha monastery.
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Watch what the communist criminals are doing they are just stupid
farmers of shit in their brain.



On Nov. 30, 2009 Vietnamese people in Munich, South Germany walked
for Bat Nha.



Vietnamese Catholics solidarity to Buddhist monks expelled from their monastery.
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Threatened Buddhists to leave Vietnam temple

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Thaw in Vietnam and Vatican ties

 For the first time ever, the Roman Catholic Pope has met the president of Vietnam in what could be a first step towards formal diplomatic relations.

But the communist leadership has traditionally been suspicious of organised religion.

Red devil visits Vatican

King of the gibbons, CS Nguyễn Minh Triết has left CSVN capital
on Nov.9 to fly to Italy/Vatican to visit the pope.

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Will this visit change the situation in VN?
Probably not, Minh Triết will smile into the cameras for the
Vietnamese state television and then the communist party and
state medias will say that Minh Triết's visit was succesful.