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Thich Quang Do meets top-level US State Department delegation and prepares to visit UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang in Binh Dinh
The Very Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) received a two-hour visit today (Sunday 21st November at 2.30pm) from a delegation of US diplomats at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City. This top-level delegation included Ms Elizabeth …
Read More »Nobel Peace Laureate Máiréad Corrigan Maguire joins millions of Buddhists in prayers for Buddhist Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang
International personalities and Vietnamese Buddhists around the world are expressing their sympathy and praying for the swift recovery of the Patriarch of the United Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang. The Patriarch, 87, was taken into Binh Dinh General Hospital on Thursday for urgent treatment for a stomach …
Read More »Buddhist Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang is gravely ill in Binh Dinh hospital
The International Buddhist Information Bureau is informed that the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang was taken into the Binh Dinh General Hospital yesterday morning, 18 November for emergency treatment. According to information obtained from the hospital by IBIB this morning, the 87 year-old …
Read More »AFP : Vietnam-religion-rights – Patriarch of outlawed Vietnamese Buddhist church gravely ill
Agence France Presse HANOI, Nov 19 (AFP) – Thich Huyen Quang, the elderly head of an outlawed Vietnamese Buddhist church who has been under house arrest for over a year, is gravely ill in hospital, the church’s Paris-based information arm said Friday. The 87-year-old patriarch of the Unified …
Read More »The Christian Post : Vietnam Committee on Human Rights Condemns Sentencing of Mennonite Pastor
The recent sentencing of an evangelical Mennonite Pastor and five believers has drawn protest from human rights groups and the Christian community The recent sentencing of an evangelical Mennonite Pastor and five believers has drawn protest from human rights groups and the Christian community. The Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang, the …
Read More »Vietnam Committee on Human Rights condemns unfair prison sentence on Reverend Nguyen Hong Quang
The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly condemns the unfair prison sentence handed down on several members of the banned Vietnamese Evangelical Mennonite Church simply for the peaceful exercise of their religious beliefs. At an unfair trial at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Friday 12 November, which …
Read More »AP : Mennonite pastor, five followers sentenced to jail in Vietnam
Associated Press A pastor and five followers from a banned Mennonite church in Ho Chi Minh City were sentenced up to three years in prison Friday for obstructing justice, a court official said. The Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang was given three years on charges of “obstructing people carrying …
Read More »Vietnamese Buddhists condemn travel ban on Youth leaders and pledge support for the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam
Representatives of the Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia Dinh Phat Tu Viet Nam) from the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia gathering in Bodhgaya, India, for the Festival of the World Movement of Vietnamese Buddhist Youth from 7-9 November 2004, issued two Resolutions protesting the Vietnamese government’s ban on 21 Buddhist …
Read More »AFP : Members of Buddhist youth dissident group in Vietnam banned from traveling
Agence France Presse HANOI, Nov 4 (AFP) – A group belonging to the banned Vietnamese Buddhist Youth movement has been banned from leaving the country to attend a Buddhist festival abroad, official sources said Thursday. The International Buddhist Information Bureau, an arm of the banned Unified Buddhist Church …
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