The 2nd Conference of the Catholic Solidarity Committee of Nghe An Province
(Baonghean.vn) -On the morning of July 25, in Vinh city, the Catholic Solidarity Committee of Nghe An province held the 2nd Conference, term 2012-2017, to evaluate the patriotic emulation movement of Catholic compatriots; activities of the Catholic Solidarity Committees at all levels in the first 6 months of 2013. Priest Nguyen Dang Dien - Chairman of the Provincial Catholic Solidarity Committee and Vice Chairmen of the Provincial Catholic Solidarity Committee co-chaired the conference.
In the first six months of the year, the Catholic Church at all levels focused on disseminating the Resolution of the 6th Congress of Catholics in Nghe An for the Construction and Defense of the Fatherland to parishes and sub-parishes, and was well received by the community. The emulation movement of patriotism, good life, and good religion of Catholics in the province took place vigorously. In the field of economic development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, Catholics enthusiastically competed in labor production, boldly transformed the economic structure, applied scientific and technological advances, introduced new varieties of plants and animals into production, and built large-scale high-income field models. Many models and Catholic households overcame difficulties to earn an income of 200 million to over 1 billion VND/year.
The movement to build new rural areas and civilized urban areas has been supported by the people. The parishioners voluntarily donated land, materials, contributed billions of VND and thousands of working days to build rural roads, contributing to the increasingly spacious and clean appearance of their homeland. Typically, in Quynh Luu, parishioners of Cam Truong, Thuan Giang, Son Trang, Thanh Da parishes donated 1,620m2 of land and dismantled more than 1,000m of surrounding walls to build roads; in Bao Nham parish (Yen Thanh), parishioners donated 3,000m2 of land to open a road from National Highway 7A to the rocky escarpment, poured concrete to build drainage ditches on both sides of the road; in Phan Thon parish (Bo Son parish), Nghi Kim commune - Vinh city, parishioners donated nearly 800m2 of land, contributed 392 million VND to build 710m of solid concrete road...
The movement "All people unite to build cultural life in residential areas, live a good life and follow the religion" has been actively responded by many parishes and people, creating an atmosphere of solidarity, excitement, joy in the residential community, harmony between society and the church. Parishioners strictly follow the Party's policies, the State's laws, and local regulations, together building safe parishes, parishes, and residential areas, actively preventing social evils. Children's education is also cared for, the rate of excellent students at all levels is increasing, the number of dropouts has decreased significantly compared to 2012.
Humanitarian and charitable activities in the parishes continue to be promoted in many forms, contributing to helping families in difficult and unfortunate circumstances, and encouraging poor students to strive to study well. Typically, parishioners in Quynh Luu district supported the disabled with 33.8 million VND; the Sacred Heart Family Association of Phi Loc parish (Dien Quang, Dien Chau) supported 3 families with people suffering from serious illnesses with 14 million VND; the family of Mr. Nguyen Van Minh - Thuong Nam parish (Hong Long, Nam Dan) contributed 10 million VND to repair the martyrs' stele house of the commune...
Priest Nguyen Dang Dien - Chairman of the Provincial Catholic Bishops' Committee spoke at the conference.
Conference overview.
Speaking at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Nguyen - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front praised and acknowledged the efforts and contributions of the Provincial Committee for the Promotion of the Catholic Faith and the Catholic community to the socio-economic development of the locality. At the same time, he expressed his hope that the Committee for the Promotion of the Catholic Faith at all levels will continue to innovate the content and form of activities, gather and replicate advanced models, examples of good people, good deeds; grasp and promptly reflect the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the Catholic community to all levels and sectors. Catholics in the parishes, they continue to carry out well the 10 contents of the campaign "living a good life, beautiful religion", the emulation movement to build the parish, the "4 exemplary" parish, build solidarity between religions, join hands to build the homeland more and more prosperous.
On this occasion, the Provincial Steering Committee for Ethnic Minorities also reported the results of the 2013 Vietnam Steering Committee for Ethnic Minorities conference in Ho Chi Minh City and the expanded Vietnam Steering Committee for Ethnic Minorities Presidium conference in Da Nang.
Khanh Ly
