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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Government statistics of the religion in Vietnam are counts of members of religious organization recognized by the government. [16] Hence, this does not include people practicing folk religion, which is not recognized by government. Also, many people practice religion such as Buddhism without taking any membership of specific government ...
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.
In this October 2018 photo, then-US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens as then-President Donald Trump answers questions during a meeting with military leaders in the Cabinet Room in Washington, DC.
A new book documents growing extremism in some evangelical churches, but also finds there is momentum among American Christians who are working to counter extremism and reform evangelicalism.
The two countries only maintain unofficial relations and dialogue, but the historical presence of Christianity in Vietnam has a relatively long history. 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.