The meeting held by the Standing Board of the VFF Central Committee in Hanoi on July 7. (Photo: VNA) The meeting was an open forum forrelevant agencies to share information about the religious situation and the reinforcementof religious solidarity; draw lessons from the reality; and boost coordinationto improve the implementation of religion-related tasks, attract religions’resources for national development, and build up the great national solidarity.
Nguyen Van Thanh, head of the VFFCentral Committee’s board for religious affairs, reported that in the firsthalf of 2023, the religious situation was basically stable. Religious activitiescomplied with the charters and statutes of their religions as well as legalregulations. The VFF committees and administrations at all levels actively coordinatedwith and assisted religious organisations to successfully hold many majorreligious events, attracting a large number of both followers and secularpeople.
Subsidiary organisations of the VFFCentral Committee stepped up the communications work, paid attention to the material andspiritual lives of their religious members, and worked with authorities toimplement programmes on economic, cultural and social development, new-stylecountryside building, and sustainable poverty reduction for religious communities,he went on.
Vice President of the VFF CentralCommittee Hoang Cong Thuy spoke highly of religious organisations’contributions to the great national solidarity, noting that they have activelyengaged in environmental protection, climate change response, health care,education, humanitarian activities, and traffic safety ensuring.
In particular, he noted, at theceremony calling for donations to the construction of houses for the poor inDien Bien and other northwestern provinces on May 13, 12 religiousorganisations, dignitaries, and businesses linked with religions donated tensof billions of VND to the drive.
Thuy held that in the coming time, itis necessary to press on with the communications about religious and belief affairswhile fully and properly carrying out relevant policies and legal regulations toensure their efficiency and consistency nationwide./.
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