Head of the Religious Affairs Department under the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyễn Văn Thanh led a delegation to survey results of three years implementing the coordination program on environmental protection and climate change adaptation by religions in Can Tho city on September 18.
The VFF delegation has visited the Pure-land Buddhist Association and Phuong Nam Zen monastery in the city.
According to a local report, during three years implementing the coordination program on environmental protection and climate change adaptation, 12 religious organizations of five religions in the city have registered 31 implementing programs. In particular, Buddhism in the city developed an action program for collecting and treatment of daily waste, limiting incense burning in Buddhist ceremonies and ensuring “green, clean, beautiful” at Phuong Nam Zen monastery’s surrounding and residential areas and Buddhist families in Phong Dien district.
Surveying an incinerator at Phuong Nam Zen monastery
The executive board of the Pure-land Buddhist Association in the city built two traditional medicine clinics under Hung Dinh and Hung Bao temples ensuring clean planting, drying and processing of medicinal herbs.
Truong Long Catholic parish registered a program for waste treatment with the participation of over 280 households in the parish in order to raise local people’s awareness on waste classification and treatment.
Hoa Hao Buddhism in the city also established seven pilot programs for environment protection including the operation of an incinerator, planting of trees and provision of fire extinguisher at Hao Hao temple located in Thot Not district’s Tan Loc ward.
PH (daidoanket.vn)
