Buddhist, Christian leaders fear impending crackdown in Vietnam

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“To the outside world, Vietnam allows freedom to follow any religion, but it’s not true,” a Buddhist leader in Ho Chi Minh City told UCA News. “The government wants to toughen the law—it’s like tightening the noose.”

Catholicculture | Oct 29, 2015

As Vietnamese lawmakers discuss revisions to the nation’s laws on religion, Christian and Buddhist leaders expressed fears about a looming crackdown.

“To the outside world, Vietnam allows freedom to follow any religion, but it’s not true,” a Buddhist leader in Ho Chi Minh City told UCA News. “The government wants to toughen the law—it’s like tightening the noose.”

The leader of a Protestant house church added that “Communists are godless, they don’t believe in God. Communists and religion are like day and night.”