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  2. Christianity in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    In the past Christian foreign missionaries are not allowed to proselytize or perform religious activities without government approval. [62] Vietnam is now maintaining a semi-formal relation with the Vatican, a major breakthrough in contrast to other communist countries of China, Laos and North Korea. The Government of Vietnam reached an ...

  3. Religion in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Christian Montagnards and their house churches continue to suffer from state control and restrictions. [70] In March, 2007, a member of the main Hanoi congregation of the legally recognized Evangelical Church of Vietnam (North) Nguyen Van Dai was arrested for accusations relating to his defense of religious freedom, including disseminating ...

  4. Freedom of religion in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    During the Vietnam War, the US backed a Catholic named Ngô Đình Diệm for his leadership of South Vietnam. The US assumed that Diem would protect freedom of religion in South Vietnam, due to his deep faith, but instead he used his power to suppress Buddhism (which was the majority religion of South Vietnam) and promote Catholicism. [8]

  5. Catholic Church in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church in Vietnam is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of bishops in Vietnam who are in communion with the Pope in Rome. Vietnam has the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia, after the Philippines , India , China and Indonesia .

  6. Protestantism in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Protestants in Vietnam (Vietnamese: đạo Tin Lành lit. ' Evangelicalism ' ) are a religious minority, constituting 1% of the population in 2022. [ 1 ] Though its numbers are small, Protestantism is the country's fastest-growing religion , growing at a rate of 600% in the early 2000s.

  7. Tự Đức's Catholic persecution - Wikipedia

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    Emperor Tự Đức (r. 1848–1883) of Vietnam. From 1849 to 1862, during the early years of the Vietnamese emperor Tự Đức (r. 1848–1883) of Vietnam, the most intense, brutal and bloodiest anti-Christian persecution ever in history happened in Vietnam, also was the last state-sponsored persecution of Catholic Christians in Vietnam, as a part of Tự Đức's efforts to eradicate every ...

  8. Holy See–Vietnam relations - Wikipedia

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    The first Catholic missionary to Vietnam started at the 15th century. Christian presence became more frequent in the 16th century, with the arrival of French, Polish and Portuguese Jesuits. The Polish Jesuit, Wojciech Męciński, was the first ever Catholic to record the existence of Vietnam and Vietnamese culture. [1]

  9. Bible translations into Vietnamese - Wikipedia

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    The whole Bible was published in 1934 and is published by the Bible Society in Vietnam as the "Old Version" and uses an archaic, traditional vocabulary of Vietnamese. In 1966, the Vietnamese Bible Society was established.