“The United States should demand that Vietnam immediately release Nguyen Van Lia and cease punishing peaceful religious advocates,” said Phil Robertson. Unsanctioned Hoa Hao Buddhist groups ...

(New York) – Vietnam should suspend charges against six Hoa Hao Buddhist followers and investigate whether police actions against them were taken for discriminatory reasons or religious ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam sentenced two Buddhist ... An and Lia are members of the Hoa Hao Buddhist group. They were arrested in April after authorities found 15 books, 64 CDs and DVDs ...

Followers of an indigenous Buddhist sect in southern Vietnam were prevented by police from marking their founder's death anniversary, leading some to take up a hunger strike. When police stopped ...

In March 2019, Ms. Bui Thi Kim Phuong, a Hoa Hao Buddhist from Vietnam, prepared to board a flight to the United States for a series of meetings on the deteriorating human rights and religious ...

Leaders of many faiths in Vietnam have reprimanded the government for brutally attacking followers of an independent group who protested against the planned destruction of their old temple. Six ...

Commemoration of the birthday of Huynh Prophet of the Hoa Hao Buddhist Church in Vietnam has been blocked by local authorities with checkpoints that make it hard for the faithfuls to attend.

A court in Vietnam has given at least one Buddhist activist a prison sentence for distributing anti-government material, state media says. Nguyen Van Lia, 71, a member of the minority Hoa Hao ...

Hanoi (AsiaNews) – Members of an Hoa Hao Buddhist unauthorised sect say they ... temple (picture 1), which is located in southern Vietnam’s An Giang province. Vo Van Thanh Liem, the temple ...

HANOI -- Police in communist Vietnam dismissed as a "malicious rumor" a report from a Buddhist sect that one of its members was clubbed to death and its leader hurt in a clash involving police on ...