By March 2020, there have been 43 religious organizations in Vietnam recognized as legal entities or given registration certificates for religious activities. Below is the name list of these organizations.

Politburo member and Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình offered congratulations to Khmer Theravada Buddhist monks and followers on the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay Festival and Buddha’s birthday during a visit to Candaransi Pagoda in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, on April 26.

The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), which aims to overcome suffering through the practice of Dharma and through developing a socially engaged form of Buddhism, is seeking to leverage its global reach with the launch of an emergency fund to bring much-needed relief to vulnerable and underprivileged communities during the global coronavirus crisis.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúcc has recently issued Directive 19, outlining the continued implementation of a range of measures to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) amid a new context of increased economic and social activity.

As of 6am on April 27 there was no new infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Vietnam, marking the 11^th day in a row the country has seen no new COVID-19 cases through community infection, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said.

A delegation of the Committee for Religious Affairs in Kien Giang province led by Chairman Danh Lắm on April 23 visited several Buddhist dignitaries in the province, on occasion of Vesak Day 2020 (PL.2564 – Dl.2020).

Catholic communities in Tra Vinh proactively have participated in movements launched by local authorities and made practical contributions for the socio-economic development in the locality.

The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Executive Committee in Ca Mau province launched on April 23 a charitable program for presenting rice to disadvantaged people in the province through “Rice ATM”.

The Government Committee for Religious Affairs (GCRA) sent on April 24 a dispatch to religious organizations asking for their continued implementation of measures preventing the coronavirus recurrence in the country.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Wednesday decided that from April 23, 28 localities of high-risk and medium-risk groups for COVID-19 infection will halt implementing social distancing, except for some districts of Hanoi, Ha Giang, and Bac Ninh.

The standing board of the committee for solidarity of Vietnamese Catholics in Tra Vinh province has visited and presented 22 million VND to the provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) for assisting the Covid-19 prevention efforts in the province.

The Central Youth Union launched a charitable program for sending necessities to disadvantaged people during the Covid-19 pandemic at a ceremony held on April 22 in Hanoi.

Bishop Thái Thọ Thanh (Nguyễn Văn Thọ), Chairman of Tay Ninh Caodai Church’s Representative Committee in Tay Ninh province has joint Caodaism in 1964 and always promoted the good life and good religion model.

Evangelical chapters under the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South)   (ECVN) in provinces of Ben Tre and Phu Yen have strictly observed social distancing and proactively engaged in the Covid-19 prevention efforts in localities.

St. Petersburg, April 22, Interfax - A court in St. Petersburg has fined Artyom Skripkin 10,000 rubles after finding him guilty of staging a holy procession down the central Nevsky Avenue.