Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs

Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs
Bộ Dân tộc và Tôn giáo (Vietnamese)
Agency overview
Formed	3 May 1946
Preceding Agency	Department of Ethnic Minority (1946–1955) ; Central Sub-Committee of Ethnic Minority (1955–1959) ; Committee of Ethnic Minority (1959–1987) ; Central Commission of Ethnic Minority of the Communist Party (1979–1992), Office of Mountain Region and Ethnic Minority (1990–1992) ; Committee for Ethnic Minority and Mountain Region (1992–2002) ; Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (2002–2025);
Type	Ministry-level Agency
Jurisdiction	Government of Vietnam
Headquarters	39 Doi Can Street, Ngoc Ha Ward, Hanoi
Annual budget	319.630 millions VND (2018)
Agency executives	Đào Ngọc Dung, Minister; Deputy Minister Y Vinh Tơr; Y Thông; Nông Thị Hà; Nguyễn Hải Trung; ; ;
Website	cema.gov.vn; ubdt.gov.vn; bdttg.gov.vn; moera.gov.vn

The Ministry of Ethnic and Religious Affairs (Vietnamese: Bộ Dân tộc và Tôn giáo, lit. 'Ministry for Ethnicities and Religions'), formerly Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA; Vietnamese: Uỷ ban Dân tộc, lit. 'Ethnic Committee'), is a government ministry in Vietnam that exercises the functions of state management on ethnic and religious affairs nationwide. The ministry is headed by a minister. The current Minister of Ethnic and Religious Affairs is Đào Ngọc Dung, appointed in 18 February, 2025.