YEREVAN, Armenia, 10 April 2010 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Members of 164 leagues from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, meeting in Yerevan, Armenia from 6 to 10 April 2010 for the 37th Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) adopted an Urgent Resolution condemning human rights abuses in …
Read More »GENEVA, 16 March 2010 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Speaking on behalf of the France-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme (Working Together for Human Rights), Mr. Vo Tran Nhat told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today that the double language and systematic …
Read More »PARIS, 23 July 2009 (IBIB) – This morning, Security Police arrested Venerable Thich Vien Dinh, Secretary General of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in Binh Dinh Province, where he had come to attend a Memorial Service for the late UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang. According to the …
Read More »CANBERRA, 17 June 2009 (IBIB) – Mr. Vo Van Ai, International spokesman of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) and a delegation of senior dignitaries from the Overseas UBCV from the USA, Canada and Australia visited the Australian Parliament today to warn of current threats to Vietnamese sovereignty and …
Read More »PARIS, 16 December 2008 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau received a report today from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) on a visit by the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy in Hanoi, Ms. Virginia E. Palmer to Very Venerable Thich Thien Hanh, Secretary …
Read More »PARIS, 16 December 2008 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau received a report today from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) on a visit by the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy in Hanoi, Ms. Virginia E. Palmer to Very Venerable Thich Thien Hanh, Secretary …
Read More »PARIS, 4 December 2008 (International Buddhist Information Bureau) – Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Ban, 73, Superior monk at the Ba La Mat pagoda and head of the local representative board of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in the southern province of Dong Nai has been beaten and his …
Read More »PARIS, 4 décembre 2008 (BIIB) – Le moine bouddhiste Thich Nhat Ban (73 ans) a été victime d’une agression où il a été battu, et sa pagode a été vandalisée du fait de sa fidélité à l’Eglise Bouddhique Unifiée du Vietnam (EBUV, Eglise historique, indépendante), qui est interdite de fait …
Read More »Paris, 1st September 2008 (International Buddhist Information Bureau) – Mr. Vo Van Ai, Director of the International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) and International Spokesman of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), warmly welcomed the “Vietnam Policy Focus” issued by the US International Commission on International Religious Freedom. This …
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By Vo Van Ai – From The Wall Street Journal AsiaJuly 14, 2008 12:01 am ET Thich Huyen Quang, 87, patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, died in Vietnam on July 5 at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh. One of Vietnam’s most beloved and esteemed spiritual …
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