Nghe An meets and honors typical examples in religions in the period 2019 - 2023
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of December 28, the Standing Committee of the Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province held a conference to listen to the thoughts and aspirations and commend typical examples participating in patriotic emulation movements in religions in the period of 2019 - 2023.
Attending the meeting were leaders of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; representatives of provincial departments, branches and sectors; representatives of the Provincial Catholic Solidarity Committee, the Executive Board of the Buddhist Sangha of Nghe An province and more than 40 prominent dignitaries, officials and religious followers.
In the period of 2019 - 2023, religious people in the province have actively applied scientific and technical advances to production, such as mechanization in land preparation and harvesting; introducing new varieties, applying good production and care processes, etc., contributing to increasing productivity, output, and product quality of crops.
Religious people established wards and associations to help each other with capital, materials, fertilizers, food, and technical guidance, helping poor households to have conditions to rise up, the rate of well-off and rich households is increasing. Up to now, the number of well-off and rich households in the province is 12,998, accounting for 33.0%; the number of poor households is 66,673, accounting for 7.8%; and the number of near-poor households is 56,289, accounting for 6.59%.
Religious people in the province have successfully implemented emulation movements to build cultural families and cultural units. The movement to care for children's education has been focused on by religious organizations.
Many affiliated religious organizations, religious establishments and residential areas with religions have launched and built a movement for religious establishments to become safe, self-governing residential areas, free of crime and social evils. To date, the province has 1,260 models of security and order, and 3,663 self-governing models.
Regarding the direction and tasks of the patriotic emulation movement for the period 2023 - 2028, the conference agreed on the following content: Promoting the tradition of patriotism and the good values of religions in social life; gathering religious people in the great national unity bloc and bridging, propagating, and mobilizing people to continue to participate effectively in patriotic emulation movements and campaigns, focusing on the campaign "All people unite to build new rural areas and civilized urban areas".
Well implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws and the guidelines of the Vietnam Bishops' Council as well as the Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, contributing with the Party Committee, government and people of the whole province to successfully implement the Resolution of the Provincial Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term, striving to build Nghe An province into a fairly developed province in the Northern region by 2025.
At the conference, delegates expressed their opinions and discussed issues revolving around: Solidarity between religions and non-religious people, contributing to the construction and development of the homeland; economic development associated with charity and humanitarian work; the role of religious communities in mobilizing to build new rural areas; granting land to build and expand religious works, etc.
On this occasion, 16 collectives and 24 individuals were awarded Certificates of Merit by the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee for their outstanding achievements in the patriotic emulation movement for the period 2019 - 2023./.