Bright spot of great solidarity among Catholics in Dien Chau

Cultural models

Hamlet 10, Dien Thinh commune has 163 households, more than 800 people, of which more than half are Catholics of Tan Da parish, Trung Song parish. In recent years, the village roads and alleys have been paved with concrete, and the houses are spacious.

The lives of the people here are mostly well-off. The present appearance of the village is also thanks to the solidarity, consensus, sharing of difficulties, and mutual support of the local people. This is the 7th year the village has maintained the title of district-level cultural village, with over 90% of families achieving the title of cultural family every year.

Mr. Tran Chi Nghiem - Party cell secretary of hamlet 10, Dien Thinh commune

said,

To create such solidarity among the non-Catholics, the hamlet executive committee as well as the pastoral council cleverly linked the movement of the whole people to build a cultural life with the 10 contents of the campaign "living a good life, living a good religion". The hamlet cadres also attracted people from the religious committee to participate, so all activities of the Catholics were discussed and agreed upon in harmony so as not to affect the lives of the non-Catholics.

Women of Ben Den parish, Dien Ky are excited with cultural activities.

The movements to promote obligations to the State are all implemented by the people here. Every year, people participate in signing a commitment to prevent social evils, ensure security, order and traffic safety. Cultural and sports activities are responded to by the people, and clubs are established and operate very actively.

Thanks to that, the village has no social evils, weddings and funerals are carried out economically, and there are no more backward customs. 100% of school-age children go to school and there are no dropouts.

Although it is a purely agricultural hamlet, with the dynamism and development of service industries and labor export, the income of the people here has reached 45 million VND/person/year. With the cooperation of the parishioners of Trung Song parish, in January 2019, Dien Thinh was recognized by the district as a commune meeting the standards of new rural culture.

The parish pastoral council, the parishes, the inter-family groups and the organizations of the associations... all have weekly activities, thereby solving the problems of the people, especially preventing social evils from entering the area. In response to the movement to build a new countryside, in which the criteria for opening roads are met, we are ready to make a great contribution.

Mr. Hoang Xuan Anh, a resident of Trung Song parish

Meanwhile, in Dien Ky commune, Ben Den parish has more than 410 households, accounting for nearly 17% of the total households in the commune. In the program of building new rural areas, the parish pastoral council has stepped up propaganda work, mobilizing people to support material and labor to complete the infrastructure.

By building many skillful mass mobilization models such as: Model of "families of studious parishioners"; model of parish "no crime, no social evils", model of "parishioners actively participating in building new rural areas"... people here have agreed to contribute 1.4 billion VND, donate nearly 2,000m²land, nearly 1,000m of wall and 7,000 working days to build 4km of clean inter-village roads. In 2016, the hamlet was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Provincial People's Committee as a typical example in the movement to build new rural areas.

At the meeting, we proposed a policy of contribution, but people did not agree, but I went to campaign and said that in a thousand years there would be a new rural program not only for us but also for our children and grandchildren. Thanks to that, according to the plan, we only built 2km, but up to now, we have built 4km of road.

Mr. Nguyen Trung Duc - Chairman of the Pastoral Council of Ben Den Parish

Donate land for road construction

In Dien Hong commune, there are currently about 5,000 followers of Dong Thap parish, accounting for more than 41% of the commune's population. In the movement to build a new rural area, Dien Hong parishioners have emerged as a typical example in the whole district. The two difficult criteria in building a new rural area are the rate of cultural villages and the per capita income of the religious people in Dien Hong, which are very high.

Specifically, currently 4/6 hamlets with religious followers have achieved cultural hamlets, the rate of cultural families has reached 83%. The income of parishioners has reached 45 million VND/person/year. People have invested nearly 20 billion VND to build rural concrete roads and intra-field roads... Thereby, contributing to Dien Hong reaching the NTM finish line in the top group of Dien Chau district.

The movement of the whole people joining hands to build the new rural area of ​​Dien Hong has had significant contributions from parishioners, especially the movement of donating land to open roads, donating land to open roads, and building economic models with very high income.

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Khanh - Secretary of Dien Hong Commune Party Committee

The movement to build roads was enthusiastically launched by the people of Ben Den parish, Dien Ky.

Dien Chau has 22/39 communes and towns with religious followers, with over 30,000 people, accounting for nearly 10% of the district's population. Over the past years, religious work in Dien Chau has always been stable. This encouraging result must affirm the important role of the movement "all people unite to build a cultural life in residential areas, live a good life and follow good religion".

To build the movement, the first thing Dien Chau focuses on is doing a good job of state management of religious beliefs. Every year, the district organizes propaganda to integrate religious laws with the campaign to build a cultural life for religious dignitaries and officials.

With the building of the great national unity bloc being widely deployed, 95% of the parishioners have been attracted to participate in mass organizations. By promoting their ownership rights in discussing and deciding on common tasks such as: contributing to the construction of infrastructure and welfare works, building village conventions, cultural village conventions... the parishioners are excited and have made many contributions to the cause of political stability and socio-economic development of the district.

Dien Chau Catholic community donated over 3,600 m²land, 32 thousand working days, building 79 km of rural roads, concrete canals, contributing tens of billions of VND to the construction of new rural areas. Of the total 21/38 communes meeting the new rural standards, 11 communes have Catholics living there.

From the economic development movement associated with building new rural areas, 850 businesses and economic models of Catholics have emerged with incomes ranging from 100 million VND to billions of VND per year. The rate of cultural families of Catholics in Dien Chau accounts for 80%.

Mai Giang