More than 100,000 Cao Dai pilgrims flocked to the Cao Dai Church in southern Tay Ninh province for an annual grand banquet of the Dieu Tri Palace on Oct. 3.

The annual banquet, held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month to offer tributes to the Great Mother and the nine Goddesses of the Dieu Tri Palace , saw Caodaists nationwide converge in the Holy See to make prayers for propitious weather, prosperity and peace.

Addressing the event, Monsignor Thuong Tam Thanh, Head of the Executive Council of the Tay Ninh Cao Dai sect, said the sect’s followers have actively participating in humanitarian programmes to assist poor families, and other social activities.

On the occasion, he called on Cao Dai followers to continue to uphold solidarity and promote the religion’s moral principles./.