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.

A celebration to mark the traditional New Year festival of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 11.

The temple worshipping Nhồi Hoa Princess located at Phuong Mountain in Son Lai commune of Ninh Binh province’s Nho Quan district has been a rare relic site commemorating a Laotian Princess who died in Vietnam and has been deified and worshiped in the country.

Vietnam Ancestral Global Day 2019 will be celebrated in five countries, including Laos, Thailand, Japan, Canada and Poland.

A ceremony was held in Thach Ban ward, Hanoi’s Long Bien district on April 7 to receive a certificate of UNESCO recognition of the sitting tug-of-war games and rituals at local Tran Vu temple as part of the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Over 200 overseas Vietnamese living in UdonThani province and adjacent areas in Thailand were brought together at a ceremony on April 7 to commemorate the death anniversary of the Hùng Kings, the legendary founders of the Vietnamese nation.

The Vietnamese Buddhist Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK) held a requiem at Phung An pagoda in Seoul on April 7 to pray for national peace and prosperity in Vietnam.