* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the Hoa Hao Buddhist activist Nguyen Van Lia and ...

Leaders of many faiths in Vietnam have reprimanded the government for brutally attacking followers of an independent group who protested against the planned destruction of their old temple. Six ...

Authorities and police violently accosted followers of a Buddhist sect in southern Vietnam as they tried to attend a ceremony held by a former prisoner of conscience. Bui Van Trung, a Hoa Hao Buddhist ...

Four Buddhist activists have been jailed in Vietnam for anti-state propaganda for flying the flag of the defeated southern regime loathed by the ruling communists. The conservative leadership of the ...

(New York) – Vietnam should suspend charges against six Hoa Hao Buddhist followers and investigate whether police actions against them were taken for discriminatory reasons or religious persecution, ...

Protesters belong to a sect that does not follow the official religious body. An Giang provincial authorities ordered the pagoda’s demolition. An elderly abbot is among those attacked. Hanoi (AsiaNews ...

Commemoration of the birthday of Huynh Prophet of the Hoa Hao Buddhist Church in Vietnam has been blocked by local authorities with checkpoints that make it hard for the faithfuls to attend.

Nguyen Van Lia and Tran Hoai An were sentenced on charges of "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state", state media reported today. Lia, 71, denied the charges in the ...