(ĐN)- Dong Nai Provincial Committee for Catholic Solidarity on Wednesday organized a ceremony to celebrate its 30th founding anniversary.
(ĐN)- Dong Nai Provincial Committee for Catholic Solidarity on Wednesday organized a ceremony to celebrate its 30th founding anniversary.
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| Vice Chairman Nguyen Thanh Tri hands certificates of merit from the Provincial People’s Committee to outstanding individuals and collectives. |
The event was attended by Chairman Vy Van Vu of Fatherland Front Committee, Vice Chairman Nguyen Thanh Tri of the Provincial People’s Committee and 200 priests and followers across the province.
Priest Tran Xuan Thao, Chairman of the provincial Committee stressed that Dong Nai is the first locality in the country to establish the provincial Committee for Solidarity of Catholics right after the Vietnam Committee for Catholic Solidarity (VCCS) was founded in 1983.
Over the past 30 years, the committee has assisted Catholic followers in patriotic emulation campaigns launched by the Vietnam Fatherland Front and authorities.
Local Catholics have actively joined in campaigns to build cultural lifestyles in residential areas, lent a helping hand to the poor, studied and followed President Ho Chi Minh’s moral examples, charitable activities while building new-style rural areas.
Other campaigns to encourage studies and talents, and improve rural transport have also received their warm responses.
Accordingly, local Catholic priests and followers have contributed hundreds of millions of dong to social welfare activities.
Addressing at the ceremony, VCCS Vice President cum General Secretary Phan Khac Tu stressed that Dong Nai is the only province that has reviewed the patriotic emulation campaign among its Catholic community.
They have fully grasped teachings in the letter “Living out the Gospel in the midst of the Nation to serve the happiness of our compatriots”, issued by the Vietnam Episcopal Council in 1980.
On behalf of the province’s leaders, Chairman Vy Van Vu praised the achievements made by the committee as well as Catholics followers.
He also hoped that the committee and its agencies would further encourage followers to join in patriotic emulation campaigns launched by the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the VCCS and local authorities as well as fully graspe Pope Benedict XVI saying ”Good Christians must also be good citizens” and teachings in the letter by Vietnam Episcopal Council in 1980.
Reported by P.H
