A delegation of Dong Thap provincial government on April 8 visited and presented to certificates of merits to religious organizations and individuals for honoring their practical contributions in the Covid-19 prevention and control.

The GCRA on April 7 issued a dispatch to the provincial-level committee for religious affairs of the country’s provinces and cities, regardingthe implementation of the Prime Minister’sdirective on the nation-wide social distancing.

Chairman of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs (GCRA) Vũ Chiến Thắng signed on April 6 a dispatch to Archbishop President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Vietnam Giuse Nguyễn Chí Linh and bishops of Catholic dioceses asking for strengthened measures against Covid-19.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Trần Thanh Mẫn sent his “warmest greetings” and “best wishes” in a letter on April 3 to all Khmer ethnic minority people on the occasion of their traditional new year festival, Chol Chnam Thmay.

Chairman of the Committee for Religious Affairs in An Giang province Lê Nguyên Châu had an exchange meeting with the Management Board of the Muslim mosque located in Chau Thanh district’s Vinh Hanh commune  on  the Covid-19 prevention and control.

Large gatherings in Tay Ninh province have been effectively restricted at worshipping places, including religious establishment.

Buddhist pagodas in Dong Thap province have proactively responded with practical contributions to efforts being made for preventing and controlling the Covid-19 pandemic.

Da Nang municipal authorities have signed on March 20 a decision approving a coordination regulation between two departments of home affairs and the culture & sports in the state administration on belief in the city.

A delegation of the provincial commission for mass mobilization, Vietnam fatherland front (VFF)’s committee, health department and religious affairs committee in Ninh Thuan province on February 19 paid visits to local religious organizations for strengthening preventive measures against Covid-19 disease.

On March 20-21, authorities of Bu Gia Map district in Binh Phuoc province in collaboration with the district Military Steering Committee and competent forces implemented disinfection at religious places in the district.

The Government Committee for Religious Affairs on Friday asked religious organizations and places of worship to stop organizing festivals, conferences, and activities for large crowds.

Ha Tinh province currently has 20,000 members of the province women union who are parishioners, accounting for nearly 70 % of the total number of religious women in the province.

Religious communities in Vietnam have been asked to step up COVID-19 prevention and control measures amid complex developments of the pandemic around the world.

The northern province of Bac Ninh has completed a dossier seeking UNESCO’s inclusion of the making of Dong Ho folk paintings in the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding.

The Culture, Sport and Tourism in Ha Tinh province has issued a dispatch on the restoration of the Lap lo traditional festival of Chut ethnic group in Rao Tre village in the province’s Huong Khe district.