Peace in Tan Lap parish

Tan Lap Parish has 370 households, with 1,500 people. With the motto of "Self-prevention, self-management, self-protection, self-reconciliation" as the top priority, the parish has established a security team with 19 volunteers participating. The team has assigned members to take turns on duty and patrol day and night, to remind children not to gather in large numbers past the prescribed hours and not to violate social evils such as: theft, lottery, gambling, drugs, fighting... At the same time, conduct reconciliation of conflicts and disagreements between families in the residential area.

Tan Lap Parish is a typical example in ensuring security and order. Photo: Hong Dien

For complicated cases, the team promptly reports topriest, parish pastoral counciland the town's police department came to resolve the issue quickly and thoroughly. Furthermore, each residential group regularly holds church activities once a week at a household. During these activities, if any household has children who violate security and order, the group leader will remind and reprimand them. In particular, through the ceremony at the church, the parish priest always advises the children and households to always be united, to successfully carry out the task of stabilizing security and politics in the locality.

When celebrating mass at the church, the Bishop disseminated a lot and imparted knowledge about the work of participating in preventing, detecting, fighting, denouncing crimes, and maintaining security and order in the area to raise people's awareness, in order to join hands to effectively implement. In particular, the Bishop often admonished, especially the younger generation, to live with the right purpose and ideals so as not to be tempted by evils, thereby becoming useful people for society.

Mr. Nguyen Anh Hue - Parishioner of Tan Lap parish, Cau Giat town

Over the years, the prison priest and the Pastoral CouncilparishTan Lap has closely coordinated with the Fatherland Front and local organizations to organize many activities with rich content and diverse forms to propagate and mobilize parishioners to strictly comply with the Party's guidelines and policies and the State's laws. In addition, mobilizingparishioners“Living the gospel in the heart of the nation”, “Good life, beautiful religion”, “Bright heart towards goodness”... In particular, Tan Lap parish is also associated with implementing the model of “Peaceful parish, no social evils” with building families, cultural residential areas and integrating with many patriotic emulation movements, major campaigns launched by all levels.

The Pastoral Council of Tan Lap Parish coordinated with the Fatherland Front Committee of Cau Giat town to exchange and grasp the thoughts and aspirations of parishioners. Photo: Hong Dien

Mr. Tran Trung Nhat - Deputy of the Pastoral Council, Tan Lap Parish, Cau Giat Town said: The Pastoral Council regularly urges the Parish Security Committee to do a good job of ideological work for all classes of people so that they can imbue them with the spirit of respecting God, loving people and being responsible for grassroots security work. Thanks to effective and practical methods, people always strictly comply with the rights and obligations of citizens. Therefore, despite the special feature of being located in the center of the district, there are no criminals or social evils in the parish.

Carry out the instructions ofVietnam Fatherland Front CommitteeQuynh Luu district and under the guidance of the Fatherland Front Committee of Cau Giat town, in 2018, Tan Lap parish built the model of "Peaceful parish, no social evils". Up to now, it has really brought about many practical effects, parishioners are increasingly raising awareness, raising the spirit of vigilance to prevent and combat crime and actively participating in the local self-management movement. Through this model, it creates more closeness and attachment between the government, the Fatherland Front and Catholic compatriots, to listen to and grasp the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the people.

The people of Tan Lap parish always follow the policies and guidelines of the Party and State. Photo: Hong Dien

Tan Lap Parish is one of the areas without social evils, the security situation is basically stable. This issue is highly appreciated by the town thanks to the leadership, active and effective participation of the pastoral council, especially the parish priest as well as the security team. That is, regularly deploying security work in each area, around the church and blocks where both parishioners and non-church people live.

Mr. Nguyen Vinh Hien - Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Cau Giat town, Quynh Luu district

Thanks to ensuring security and order, it has created favorable conditions for the parishioners of Tan Lap parish in particular and the people of Cau Giat town in general to feel secure in production, develop trade and service industries to increase income, and create jobs for local workers. Thereby, it has made an important contribution to the process of promoting socio-economic development and maintaining security and order./.