Vietnam respects and guarantees citizens’ rights to freedom of belief and religion, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said at a regular press conference in Hanoi on July 4 while responding to reporters’ question about Vietnam’s assessment of the US State Department’s recent Report on International Religious Freedom.

Buddhist nun Thích Nữ Giới Tánh, head of the Vietnamese Buddhists’ Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK), on July 1 received the Buddhist Peace Prize Awards presented by the RoK’s Buddhism.

The 11th General Assembly of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (ABCP) was held in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar on 21–23 June, marking the 50th anniversary of the ABCP.

A delegation of Sepon district public security, Savannakhet province of Laos paid a visit to Hoang Phuc pagoda located in Quang Binh province’s Le thuy district on June 12.

The Religious Committee in Gia Lai province held on May 31 a reception for a visiting delegation of the Cults & Religion Department of Preah Vihear province, Cambodia.

The Vietnam Buddhist Shangha (VBS) coordinated with the Embassy of Vietnam in Mozambique to celebrate the Lord Buddha’s 2563rd birth anniversary in Maputo on May 29.

A ceremony was held at Bang Long Pagoda in Vientiane, Laos, on May 21 to mark the Buddha’s 2563^rd birthday, with the participation of hundreds of Buddhist monks, nuns, and followers from the Vietnamese community in the country.

In recent days, Vietnamese Buddhist worshipers in several cities and provinces in the Czech Republic organized activities to celebrate the Buddha’s Birthday at Buddhist places of the Vietnamese community.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình expressed his wish that Senior Minister and Minister of Cults and Religion of Cambodia Him Chhem would help strengthen solidarity and mutual understanding between the two countries’ peoples during a reception in Hanoi on May 8.

Seven Asian art troupes from India, Japan, China, Bhutan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka are expected to perform at the heritage avenue programme hosted by the Vietnam Television (VTV) on May 12.

Head of the Ethnic minority board in Hanoi city Nguyễn Tất Vinh hosted on May 6 a reception for a visiting delegation of the Cambodian Ministry of Cults & Religion on occasion of its official visit to Vietnam.

The University of Social Sciences and Humanities in collaboration with the Reuben Clark Law School held on April 20 an international seminar on the implementation of the Law on Belief and Religion in Hanoi.

After the concussed event of the terrible fire that devastated Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, the Vietnamese press had an interview with Deputy Head of Mission of the French Embassy in Vietnam Olivier Sigaud.

The profile on marking the 650^th death anniversary of Vietnamese celebrity Chu Văn An in 2020 was adopted on April 16^th by the 206^th session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), together with 48 others among 71 profiles nominated by 41 countries.

A ceremony commemorating the death anniversary of Hùng Kings, the legendary founders of Vietnam, took place at the Warsaw Buddhism culture centre, Poland, on April 14 with traditional rituals.