Vinh City leaders congratulate Yen Dai Parish on Christmas 2013

(Baonghean.vn) - On the occasion of Christmas 2013 and welcoming the New Year 2014, on the morning of December 22, Vinh City leaders led by comrade Vo Viet Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee - Secretary of the City Party Committee came to congratulate the dignitaries and parishioners of Yen Dai parish - Nghi Phu commune - Vinh City.

Yen Dai parish currently has more than 5,300 parishioners, belonging to three parishes: Dong Kien, Dong Yen, Dong Tan and gathering more than 2,000 Catholic students to study and live. In recent years, with the care and attention of the Bishop's Office, the Party, local authorities, and the great solidarity of the Fatherland Front at all levels, the active activities of the Pastoral Council, Yen Dai parish has increasingly developed in all aspects, parishioners trust and enthusiastically implement the Party's policies and guidelines, the State's laws, striving to eradicate hunger and reduce poverty, and become rich legitimately.

Vinh City Party Secretary Vo Viet Thanh presents gifts to Yen Dai Parish

On behalf of the leaders of Vinh City, Comrade Vo Viet Thanh - Secretary of the City Party Committee acknowledged and praised the contributions of the parishioners in the work of protecting, building and developing the homeland. He wished the parishioners a peaceful and happy Christmas and hoped that in the coming time, the parish priest and parishioners would continue to coordinate with the authorities at all levels, bringing the lives of the parishioners to be increasingly prosperous and happy, good in life and good in religion, building the homeland to be increasingly prosperous.

On behalf of the parishioners of Yen Dai parish, Father Hoang Thai Lan thanked the attention of the Party committees and authorities at all levels in the city and discussed a number of issues on economic development, cultural education and introducing new professions, creating jobs for parishioners.

Thanh Loan

(Dai Vinh)