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On the afternoon of May 13, the Office of the President held a press conference to announce the Presidents order announcing the laws passed by the 16th National Assembly at its first session, including the Law on Belief and Religion (amended). Download On the afternoon of May 13, in Hanoi, the Office of the President held a press conference to announce the Presidents Order on 9 laws passed by the First Session of the 16th National Assembly. The law includes 9 chapters and 61 articles regulating freedom of belief and religion; belief and religious activities; religious organizations; rights and obligations of agencies, organizations, communities, and individuals related to belief and religious activities, with the applicable subjects being state agencies; relevant organizations and individuals. Deputy Minister of Ethnic Affairs and Religion Nguyen Hai Trung said that the new law was issued to fully institutionalize the Partys policies on promoting democracy, ensuring freedom of belief and religion, overcoming limitations of the 2016 law, in accordance with international integration, and at the same time clearly regulating belief and religious activities in cyberspace and the responsibilities of relevant agencies, organizations and individuals. Download Deputy Minister of Ethnic Minorities and Religions Nguyen Hai Trung: The law has decentralized and decentralized power in the field of belief and religion to ensure compatibility with the two-level local government organizational model. The law also decentralizes power and decentralization in the field of belief and religion to ensure compatibility with the two-level local government organizational model, promoting decentralization and decentralization to provincial and commune-level Peoples Committees in state management of belief and religion, in accordance with the principle of delineation of authority and responsibilities. services, powers of agencies and local conditions, characteristics, resources and capacity. The law also supplements state management measures in the field of belief and religion. The goal is to build and form a culture of compliance with the law, ensuring respect for the Constitution and laws of relevant organizations and individuals; promote the prevention and warning of violations along with strengthening inspection, detection and strict and timely handling of violations of the law in the field of belief and religion. A number of measures have the nature of warning, advising, deterring and preventing relevant organizations and individuals from violating the law, contributing to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management in the field of belief and religion. Measures include: Revocation of written approval for registration of concentrated religious activities (of Vietnamese citizens and foreigners legally residing in Vietnam); revoke documents granting certificates of registration of religious activities, suspend positions of officials in case of violations. Notably, the Deputy Minister said that the new law stipulates the simplification of administrative procedures and digital conversion in the field of belief and religion. With changes in the arrangement and organization of the apparatus, innovation in national governance, taking people and businesses as the center, in addition to inheriting the regulations on administrative procedures of the 2016 Law on Beliefs and Religions, they are still appropriate, and at the same time do not give rise to new administrative procedures. In addition, the law has been reviewed and supplemented with regulations related to international cooperation in belief and religion work; principles of belief and religious activities; Religious activities outside religious establishments; Conditions to be a representative of a belief facility, of concentrated religious groups, of organizations. Currently, the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions is presiding over the development of a decree guiding the implementation of the law to ensure its effectiveness on January 1, 2027. Son Hao See more Clarifying many new issues in the draft Law on Beliefs and Religions See more Law on Beliefs and Religions (amended): Urgent requirements for management management in the digital environmentSee moreSoon complete the draft Law on Beliefs and Religions (amended)See moreCompleting the draft Law on Beliefs and Religions: View from practice
