More than 500 Buddhist monks, nuns and followers registered for blood donation while 150 people put their names on the list of organ donors at a festival in Hanoi on August 4.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) will work together to organise a blood donation and organ donation registration festival at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Soc Son district of Hanoi on August 4.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with monks and nuns studying at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Hanoi on September 3 as part of his visit to Vietnam, which began on September 2.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of Hanoi’s Liberation Day
(October 10), 60 statues of Thanh Giong (Saint Giong), a Vietnamese folk
hero, were given to provinces, cities, organisations and individuals
throughout Vietnam during an official ceremony on October 5.
The Speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament, Chamal Rajapaksa, arrived in
Hanoi on July 14, beginning a six-day official visit to Vietnam at the
invitation of National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung.
Religious organisations in Vietnam had
a busy year in 2009 with numerous activities, concluded a meeting of
the government committee for religious affairs in Da Nang on Jan. 13.