Vietnam seeks Cuban experience in religious affairs
Vietnam wishes to learn from Cuba’s experience in managing relations with the Catholic Church and the Vatican and expanding bilateral cooperation and information exchange in religious affairs, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Chairman of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs Vu Chien Thang has said.
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Chairman of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs Vu Chien Thang (left) in his meeting with Caridad Diego Bello, head of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP)’s Office of Religious Affairs. (Photo: VNA)
Havana (VNA) – Vietnam wishes to learn fromCuba’s experience in managing relations with the Catholic Church and theVatican and expanding bilateral cooperation and information exchange in religiousaffairs, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Chairman of the GovernmentCommittee for Religious Affairs Vu Chien Thang has said.
He made the statement when meeting Caridad Diego Bello, headof the Cuban Communist Party (CCP)’s Office of Religious Affairs, as he was visiting the country on September 17 – 22.
Religions live in harmony in Vietnam, with followersactively contributing to national construction and development, Thang told Bello.The Vietnamese Party and State have pursued consistent policies of ensuring religious freedom and equality, promoting cultural and ethical values of allreligions and making use of resources created by religious dignitaries and followersto develop the country, he said.
The official urged the two sides to further ramp up high-leveldelegation exchange and asked the CCP office to provide anenabling environment for the Vietnamese community in Cuba to practice their traditional beliefs andreligions.
He also had a meeting with Head of the CCPCadre Policy Department Humberto Camilo Hernández Suárez, during which severalhighlights of the cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Home Affairsand the Cuban department were outlined. The two sides inked a numberof agreements in archive and records management, and personnel training.
Thang later paid a courtesy call to Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, Secretaryof the CCP Central Committee and head of its Ideological Department where the two officials discussed partnership inpersonnel arrangement and training, and public administrative reforms betweenthe two countries. They also talked about religious situation and policies aswell as experience in religious state governance./.
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Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Chairman of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs Vu Chien Thang (left) in his meeting with Caridad Diego Bello, head of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP)’s Office of Religious Affairs. (Photo: VNA)
