Editing Ching Hai (section)

=== Ban in Vietnam ===
{{See also|Freedom of religion in Vietnam}}''The Vietnamese'' Magazine's Religion Bulletin – January 2020, states "The Vietnamese government views all developing religions today as heresy". Methods of suppression: preventing proselytization, imprisoning proselytizers, forcing citizens to sign vows to abandon their religion.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2020-05-13 |title=Religion Bulletin – January 2020 |url=https://www.thevietnamese.org/2020/05/religion-bulletin-january-2020/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=The Vietnamese Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hoang |first=Chung |date=2013-05-24 |title=New Religious Movements in Vietnamese Media Discourse since 1986: A Critical Approach |url=https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JASR/article/view/2289 |journal=[[Journal for the Academic Study of Religion|Australian Religion Studies Review]] |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=293–315 |doi=10.1558/arsr.v25i3.293|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

According to an official statement by Vietnamese authorities:
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"Activities spreading superstition affect the social fabric. They have the clearest and broadest influence on the population in places where these new religions (heresy, strange faiths) appear: Supreme Master Ching Hai, Long Hoa Maitreya, Treasured Temple of the Three Religions, Protestant Word of Life..."}}

A publication of the [[Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of Vietnam|Central Propaganda Committee]] divided these "heretical religions" into three groups. The first two groups included religions that sprung up locally from [[Protestantism in Vietnam|Protestant]] foundations and Buddhist foundations. The third group contains those religions that were imported from overseas, such as Supreme Master Ching Hai.<ref name=":2" />