The appearance of the priest at the disturbance at Nghi Phuong commune headquarters (Nghi Loc district, Nghe An province)

(Baonghean.vn) - As reported by Nghe An Electronic Newspaper, just a few hours after the ordination mass of the new auxiliary bishop Peter Nguyen Van Vien (morning of September 4, 2013) ended, hundreds of parishioners went to the Nghi Phuong commune headquarters (Nghi Loc district, Nghe An province) to shout, cause trouble, and use rocks and sticks to attack officials and people present at the commune People's Committee headquarters, injuring many people.

>>Hundreds of parishioners surrounded and threatened the headquarters of the People's Committee of Nghi Phuong commune (Nghi Loc, Nghe An).
>>The ordination ceremony of the auxiliary bishop of Vinh Diocese took place in a peaceful and orderly atmosphere.

Colonel Nguyen Huu Cau - Deputy Director of Provincial Police discussed
with Priest Nguyen Xuan Quy.


Priest Nguyen Xuan Quy (in white shirt, holding microphone) talks with parishioners

The chaos, intimidation, and disorder caused traffic jams, injuring dozens of people and officials, even security forces and passersby during the chaos that lasted until 5:30 p.m. the same day. Only when Mr. Nguyen Xuan Quy - the parish priest of Xuan My was authorized by the new auxiliary bishop Nguyen Van Vien to meet and discuss with the parishioners did the chaos, disorder, suppression, and attacks with rocks and sticks calm down.

Father Nguyen Xuan Quy told the parishioners present at the scene: Doing so is a violation of the law, causing disunity between Catholics and non-Catholics. He advised the parishioners to calmly leave, not to gather in large numbers on the street, causing traffic safety obstruction... After that, Father Nguyen Van Quy discussed with the local government leaders and security forces and said: The parishioners will leave...

Many people were injured in the riot.

Thus, the appearance of the Priest had the weight of a "powerful" "command" that "dispersed" the overexcited crowd, restored order to the headquarters of the People's Committee of Nghi Phuong commune (Nghi Loc district, Nghe An province) and smooth traffic on Provincial Road 34 passing through Nghi Phuong commune.

Reporter team