(VOVworld) – Lawmakers continued to give opinions on the draft law on belief and religion on Friday. 

Truong Thi Mai, chairwoman of the NA Committee on Social Affairs (Photo: VOV)

The Minister of Home Affairs presented a report on the bill and the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents, and Children agreed on the need to issue a law on belief and religion to specify the right to belief and religious freedom institutionalized in the 2013 Constitution and in line with the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights which Vietnam signed in 1982.

The draft law has 15 changes stipulating the right to freedom of belief and religion and setting regulations on banned behaviors; the participation of religious organizations in healthcare, education, and vocational training, charity and humanitarian works; religious practices of foreigners in Vietnam; and state management of belief and religion.