Building solidarity between Catholics and non-Catholics in Hung Nguyen: Imprints of cadres and party members

(Baonghean) - In recent years, the work of consolidating the political system in the religious areas has been given special attention by the Hung Nguyen District Party Committee, in which the building of core cadres in the religious areas has been focused on, contributing to the consensus and understanding of the people in all policies and guidelines of the Party and the State.

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Hung Nguyen is an area where followers of three religions live, including Catholicism, Buddhism and Protestantism. Catholicism alone currently has 4,901 households, 22,711 people, accounting for 20.26% of the district's population, distributed in 14/23 communes and towns, of which 81 hamlets have Catholics, 30 hamlets are Catholic. Catholics in the area live a good life, respect God and love the country, and properly exercise their rights and obligations as citizens.

Many Catholic Youth Union members of Hung Nguyen district joined forces to do irrigation work.

Typically, in the construction of new rural areas, parishioners in many places have donated thousands of square meters of land, supported funds and thousands of working days. The people have promoted the spirit of community, of solidarity between Catholics and non-Catholics. Coming to Hung Thinh 1 hamlet - Hung Tay when the people here were playing volleyball on the field on International Women's Day, Mr. Nguyen Van Hien - Party cell secretary said: "The people of Hung Thinh 1 are very supportive of the ideology, within just 1 month of launching the construction of new rural areas, the people have contributed hundreds of millions of VND to complete 2 major projects of the hamlet, on average each person here contributes from 1 to 1.5 million VND".

Hung Thinh 1 Hamlet currently has 4 party members but no local party members. The Head of the Commune Agriculture Committee has been promoted to become the Party cell secretary, and the remaining 3 comrades, also commune officials, have been promoted to become Party committee members to lead the grassroots.

Hung Thinh 2 Hamlet - Hung Tay is a Catholic hamlet with many innovations, from communicating policies to voluntarily contributing working days and money to build inter-village roads, which is considered a breakthrough in the propaganda work of the Hung Thinh 2 Hamlet People's Mobilization Team. Therefore, after Hung Thinh 1, Hung Thinh 2 is the leading unit in the movement of the whole people joining hands to build the new rural area. Comrade Le Van Chuyen - Chairman of the Veterans Association, a party member who has been promoted to be the Party cell secretary, said: "First, when propagating and mobilizing, we should not say clearly that we came for this or that, but we just came to visit and ask about the people. In the story, we should insert propaganda, thereby resolving the concerns of the people. Second, in all work, the cadres must always take the lead, do it first, contribute first and always be transparent about all income and expenditure to the people so that the people will believe".

Hung Nguyen District Youth Union built a volleyball court for the Youth Union members of Hung Chau religious area.

Hung Thinh 1 and 2 are two hamlets with no party members among the 10 Catholic hamlets in Hung Tay commune. Mr. Phan Van Hien - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Hung Tay commune said: "Previously, in these 10 Catholic hamlets, there were only 3 party cells, on average, 3 hamlets had one party cell. This had a significant impact on the leadership and direction process. In that situation, the Party Committee Standing Committee has a policy of mobilizing over 30 party members who are members of the Commune Party Committee Executive Committee, cadres of departments, branches and organizations to strengthen the hamlet unit to participate in activities". From this method, the party cells have promoted the leadership and direction role of the Party. Resolutions of all levels are transmitted to the people in a timely manner. The hamlet executive committee has a solid support in the management process in the area. Mr. Hien also said that recently, 10 units were separated to establish new party cells, 8 of which have trained and recruited 20 new party members who are Catholics.

Mass mobilization officers of Hung Nguyen district mobilized people of hamlet 1 - Hung Yen Bac to join hands in building new rural areas.

Hung Yen Bac commune has 5 white-church hamlets with party members. Since the beginning of 2015, the commune has strengthened 3 party cells to Party cells 5, 6A, 7B. Comrade Hoang Van Khang - Deputy Secretary of Hung Yen Bac commune Party Committee said: "After establishing the strengthened party cells, the localities have had clear changes. The most effective is in the movement to build new rural areas. People have voluntarily donated land, fences, and supported working days, to have 6 km of straight and beautiful concrete like today".

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Over the years, Hung Nguyen has had 567 key cadres of the movement with 115 party members of religious origin. The key cadres in religion have had an impact on setting an example in life, contributing to propagating the Party and State's policies and laws, mobilizing religious followers to "live a good life and a good religion", coordinating with functional agencies to properly resolve the legitimate needs of religion, and fighting against activities that take advantage of religion to violate the law.

Regarding this issue, comrade Phan Van Hien - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Hung Tay commune said: "From the establishment of a core team of religious areas, we have grasped the situation in each locality. For example, the construction of a religious house on land that has been planned but not yet licensed in the area of ​​the local religious committee, we have had ways to propagate and mobilize people and religious committees to properly implement the policies of the Party and the State. And also through this event, we have a profound lesson that mass mobilization work, if implemented at the right time, especially choosing the right people with many diverse forms of approaching the masses, will prevent many unfortunate incidents from happening."

Comrade Hoang Van Phi - Secretary of the District Party Committee said: “The criteria for us to select the core members of the religious areas are the advanced core members of the people and the non-religious people living in the religious areas with national spirit, correct political awareness and good civic responsibility. According to that criterion, the core members that the district is building will be people with prestige and the ability to persuade and mobilize the masses of religious followers and religious organizations to implement the direction of accompanying the nation. They must be people with the ability to distinguish between purely religious activities and illegal activities of exploiting religion to fight against activities of exploiting religion”.

Strengthening the core religious team that Hung Nguyen District Party Committee is working hard to build is very important in consolidating the political system of religious areas, thereby building a strong solidarity between religions and non-religious people.

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