Q: How is the responsibility of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in safeguarding the right to freedom of religion and belief for everyone prescribed in the new law on belief and religion?
11/30/2017
A: The Article 4 of the Law on Belief and Religion stipulates the responsibility of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in safeguarding the right to freedom of belief and religion for everyone as the following:
- To gather religious and non-religious people together for building the all-nation unity block, developing and defending the Fatherland.
- To promptly inform opinions, aspirations and proposals of the people on issues related to belief and religion to competent State bodies.
- To take part in drafting legal documents on belief and religion, critical review of draft legal documents and socio-economic development plans, programs and projects related to belief and religion according to provisions of the law.
- To participate in the propagation and mobilization work toward dignitaries, deacons, practitioners, followers of religions and belief, religious organizations and the people for the implementation the law on belief and religion.
- To scrutinize the performance of state agencies, organizations, elected representatives, cadres, civil servants and officials in the implementation of policies and laws on belief and religion.