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 belonging to 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 people here are mostly well-off. The present-day appearance of the village is also thanks to the solidarity, unanimity, 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 the 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 entire population 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 have been established and are operating 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 cultural standards of the new rural area.

The parish pastoral council, the parishes, the inter-family groups and the organizations of the associations... all have weekly activities, thereby effectively solving the problems of the people, especially doing a good job of preventing social evils from entering the area. In response to the movement to build a new rural area, in which the criteria for opening roads are met, we are ready to make a very high 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 increased propaganda work, mobilizing people to support material and labor to complete the infrastructure.

By building many skillful mass mobilization models such as: "families of studious parishioners" model; "no crime, no social evils" parish model; "parishioners actively participating in building the new rural area" model... people here have agreed to contribute 1.4 billion VND, donating 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 campaigned 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 would only build 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 the 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 very high rate of cultural villages and per capita income among the followers of the religion in Dien Hong.

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 as high as 45 million VND/person/year. People have invested nearly 20 billion VND to build concrete roads in rural areas and inner-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 parishioners of Ben Den, 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. Having 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 movement 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 Catholic people living there.

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

Mai Giang