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In Vietnam, there are 16 religions recognized by the Vietnamese state, including: Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Cao Dai, Hoa Hao Buddhism, Islam, Baha'i, Pure Land Buddhist Association, Seventh-day Adventist, Four Enlightenment Buddhism, Master of the Way, Minh Ly Dao, Brahminism, Mormonism, Talon Hieu Nghia Buddhism, Buu Son Ky Huong
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buddhism first appear at Vietnam more than 2000 years ago, thought missionaries, merchants. And nowaday buddism is the most popular religious in Vietnam. There are many different type of buddhism in Vietnam, each of them worship a different Buddha.
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Uthman ibn Affan, the third Caliph of Islam, sent the first official Muslim envoy to Vietnam and Tang Dynasty China in 650.
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From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, many Western Catholic missionaries followed foreign merchant ships to Vietnam to preach. Catholic churches grow in many places. Christianity became a religion spread throughout the country.
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The introduction of the Baháʼí Faith in Vietnam first occurred in the 1920s
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Adherents maintain that Ngo Van Chieu, a district head of the French administration in Cochinchina, was the first to worship and receive messages from Cao Dai in 1921.