The Central Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) held on October 5-6 a training course on the advocacy work amongst ethnic and religious women in Phu Yen province’s Tuy Hoa city.

The Committee for Religious Affairs under the Home Affairs Department in the central province of Ninh Thuan held on October 6 a conference for disseminating laws on belief and religion planned for 2020 for key members of religious organizations in the province.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee (VFF) in Ben Tre province in collaboration with the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) Executive Committee in the province and Giong Trom district organized on October 3 a meeting for launching practical programs providing social welfares in the province.

The commission for mass mobilization in Thai Binh province in collaboration with the provincial public security department held on October 2 the training conference on religious affairs and human rights 2020.

The authorities of Ky Anh provincial city in the central province of Ha Tinh held on September 30 a training conference on religious affairs for local cadres in the city.

A delegation of Binh Duong provincial Committee for Religious Affairs led by Chairman Trần Đức Thịnh paid visits to typical religious elderly in the province on occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (01/10).

The military command in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province held on September 30 a ceremony in Long Tan parish to inaugurate and hand over construction facilities to disadvantaged parishioners of Long Tan.

Vice Chairwoman of Ca Mau provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee (VFF) Dương Thu Hiền led a delegation checking the implementation of the Law on Belief and Religion 2016 in Ca Mau city and Thoi Binh district from September 29-30.

A delegation of the provincial committee for religious affairs in Quang Binh visited on September 29 the center for orphans and children with disabilities under Huong Phuong Holy Cross Lovers located in Quang Phuong commune of the province’s Quang Trach district, on occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Duc Thuan ward authorities in Ha Tinh province’s Hong Linh district held on September 30 a ceremony to receive certificates recognizing Quan Son temple and Ngoc Son communal house as provincial cultural relic sites.

The “Nhay lua” (fire jumping) ceremony of the Red Dao ethnic minority people in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang has been listed as a national intangible heritage.

The Southern province of Ca Mau is currently home to 374,000 followers of Buddhism, Caodaism, Catholicism, Christianity, Hoa Hao Buddhism and Vietnam Pure-land Buddhism, belonging to 157 sub-organizations, and 550 worshiping places of folk beliefs.

Key contents of state laws on belief and religion have been disseminated to participating monks and nuns of the Buddhist summer retreat 2020 in Thai Binh city, at a meeting held on September 27.

The National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children held a meeting on September 25 to gather comment on a report on the implementation of policies and laws on belief and religion.

The People’s Committee in Quang Binh province has issued a decision on the recognition of Thien Yana (Po Nagar) Goddess Cham temple located in Bo Trach district’s Hai Phu commune as the province-level historical relic site.