The youth union of Soc Trang province in collaboration with Vinh Chau district youth union held on October 15 the 4^th sport competition amongst ethnic & religious youth on occasion of the Sen Dolta Festival of Khmer people in Dom Tho Not pagoda located in Vinh Chau district’s.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Trần Thanh Mẫn hosted on October 13 a meeting for a visiting delegation from the Committee for Solidarity of Vietnamese Catholics (CSVC).

Phu Quoc Protestant chapter under the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (ECVN) (Southern) in Kien Giang province appointed pastor Lê Hồng Anh as its new superintendent at a ceremony held on October 12 in Phu Quoc district.

The seventh national congress of Vietnamese Catholics building and protecting the homeland for the 2018-2023 tenure opened in Hanoi on October 13. 

The Caritas of My Tho Diocese held on October 12 a thanksgiving mass when inaugurating a charity nursing home based in Tien Giang province’s Cho Gao district.

Politburo Member cum Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilization Trương Thị Mai hosted a reception for a delegation from the new term Committee for Solidarity of Vietnamese Catholics (CSVC) on October 13.

A ceremony was held in Can Loc district, Ha Tinh province, on October 16, to receive a certificate recognising "Hoang Hoa su trinh do” as a documentary heritage in Asia and the Pacific under UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme.

The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) Executive Committee in Yen Bai province held on October 10 a groundbreaking ceremony for its headquarters based in Tung Lam pagoda in Yen Bai city.

The annual Kate 2018 in Po Sah Inu tower in Binh Thuan province took place in three days from October 7–10.

A delegation from the Ethnographic Institute under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences led by Dr. Head of Religious Research Division Trần Thị Hồng Yến met with the Religious Affairs Committee in An Giang province on October 05.

The second Ban Gioc Waterfall Tourism Festival opened on October 13 in Trung Khanh district, the northern border province of Cao Bang.

An exhibition featuring the 2018 Kate Festival, the most important annual celebration of the ethnic Cham Brahman community, opened in the central province of Ninh Thuan on October 8.

The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) will organize a press meeting on UN Day of Vesak 2019 on October 11 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, No. 56 Le Duc Tho street, My Dinh ward 2, Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi city.

The southern province of Tay Ninh will build the Ba Den national tourist site into a special, quality and highly competitive tourism centre in the country.

Doc Cuoc temple festival in Sam Son city of Thanh Hoa province has just been recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.