{"id":13983,"date":"2026-03-23T05:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/us-should-practice-what-it-preaches-on-vietnam-religious-freedom\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:26:04","slug":"us-should-practice-what-it-preaches-on-vietnam-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/us-should-practice-what-it-preaches-on-vietnam-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"US should practice what it preaches on Vietnam religious freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On March 19, Vietnam\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/news\/news\/vietnam-rejects-us-religious-freedom-report-as-unobjective-inaccurate-5052552.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected<\/a> the latest annual report from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) as \u201cunobjective, inaccurate and based on information with ill intent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The response followed a well-established pattern \u2013 USCIRF has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/countries\/vietnam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommended<\/a> that Vietnam be designated a \u201cCountry of Particular Concern\u201d (CPC) every year since 2001, and Hanoi has pushed back each time.<\/p>\n<p>USCIRF\u2019s concerns are substantive and well-documented. Vietnam operates a system in which religious organizations must register with the state and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/03\/us-should-practice-what-it-preaches-on-vietnam-religious-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 19, Vietnam\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the latest annual report from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3455,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-asie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}