Improving the effectiveness of work on beliefs and religions in the Vietnamese community abroad

Government Committee for Religious Affairs• November 28, 2020 15:52

That is the main content of the signing ceremony of the Work Coordination Program for the 2020-2025 period between the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese and the Government Committee for Religious Affairs.

On the afternoon of November 27, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a conference to review 5 years of implementing Directive No. 45-CT/TW on continuing to promote the implementation of Resolution No. 36-NQ/TW of the 9th Politburo on work with overseas Vietnamese in the new situation.

Within the framework of the Conference, the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese and the Government Committee for Religious Affairs signed a Work Coordination Program for the 2020-2025 period.

The signing ceremony was honored to be witnessed by Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Minh Khoi; Mr. Ngo Trinh Ha, Vice Chairman of the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese; Mr. Nguyen Anh Chuc, Vice Head of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs, representatives of leaders of departments and units under the Government Committee for Religious Affairs and the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, and delegates attending the Conference.

Hai bên ký kết chương trình phối hợp công tác giai đoạn 2020-2025
The two sides signed a work coordination program for the 2020-2025 period.
Nowadays, the communityVietnamese people abroadThere are about 5.3 million people, of which 80% of the Vietnamese community abroad have beliefs and religions. Recognizing the important role and contributions of the Vietnamese community abroad in strengthening the blocnational unity, Committee for Overseas Vietnamese andGovernment Committee for Religious Affairssigned a program of coordination of work with overseas Vietnamese in the field of beliefs and religions for the period 2020-2025.

The coordination program aims to innovate and improve the effectiveness of work on beliefs and religions in the Vietnamese community abroad, and at the same time coordinate to effectively implement the Party and State's policies and guidelines on national solidarity work; promote the role of religious organizations in Vietnam, dignitaries and followers at home and abroad in religious and belief activities, meet the spiritual needs of overseas Vietnamese, maintain and promote Vietnamese cultural values, and helpVietnamese communityAbroad, better understand the Party's policies and the State's laws on beliefs and religions.

Các đại biểu chụp hình lưu niệm
Delegates take souvenir photos.
The implementation content of the Coordination Program includes strengthening coordination and advising the Party and State to institutionalize policies and guidelines on great solidarity of the Vietnamese community abroad in the field of beliefs and religions, researching, building, amending and supplementing legal documents of the State onbelief, religionrelating to Vietnamese people abroad.

Build a coordination mechanism and exchange information between the two sides on work with overseas Vietnamese in the field of belief and religion; innovate and diversify the content and methods of propaganda on the Party and State's policies on belief and religion in the overseas Vietnamese community, on the work of building the organization and operation of religious organizations and religious establishments of overseas Vietnamese, on supporting and mobilizing the overseas Vietnamese community in the field of belief and religion, etc.


Government Committee for Religious Affairs