Cao Dai (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia's article on Cao Dai, community-edited. Reliable for the 7 October 1926 Declaration of the Founding of the Cao Dai Religion signed by Ngo Van Chieu, following a Saigon spiritualist club active since 1925; the growth to over a million members by 1940, a fifth to a fourth of Cochinchina's population; the 1941 to 1946 French colonial exile of leader Pham Cong Tac and other Caodaist figures to penal colonies in Madagascar; the postwar communist government's ban on Caodaism after the April 1975 fall of Saigon; and the 1997 restoration of legal recognition, with diaspora communities established in North America, Cambodia, Europe and Australia after 1975. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/