Agence France Presse HANOI, Nov 22 (AFP) – One of Vietnam’s most prominent religious dissidents was prevented by police Monday from visiting the gravely ill patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church, triggering a tense roadside stand-off. The vehicle transporting Thich Quang Do, the deputy head of the Unified …
Read More »U.S. diplomats met with leaders of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam over the weekend, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said Monday. It was the first diplomatic visit Vietnam’s government has allowed the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam’s deputy leader, Thich Quang Do, in more than a year, …
Read More »The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received further reports on the new crackdown on the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). Venerable Thich Quang Do, 76, prominent dissident and Deputy leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) was forcibly prevented today from traveling to Binh …
Read More »The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received urgent information that Police have intercepted a mini-van with Venerable Thich Vien Dinh and nine other UBCV members at 5.30 am (Vietnam time) as they drove towards the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City. The monks were going to …
Read More »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 »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 »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 …
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