(HBO) - In recent years, Catholic dignitaries and followers in Hop Thanh commune (Hoa Binh city) have always upheld their religion’s tradition, as well as promoted solidarity and exemplary spirit in implementing policies and laws of the Party and State. They have participated actively in movements and activities of the local community.
An official of Hop Thanh commune (Hoa Binh city) is disseminating
policies and laws of the Party and State to Catholic followers in Tan Thanh parish.
Hop Thanh communes is home to the Tan
Thanh parish which comprises 36 households with 152 members, including 22
households with 93 members in Tan Thanh village.
Chairman of the communal People’s Committee Nguyen Van Mau said in recent
years, local Catholics have actively participated in ensuring security and political
stability, and preventing illegal religious propaganda.
They have always pioneered
the implementation of patriotic emulation movements in the locality, especially
in the
movementof "All people unite to buildacultural life”,
building new-style rural areas, and household economic development,
significantly contributing to the village’s achievements.
Catholics in Tan Thanh village livemostly
onfishingand
marineaquaculture,
concentrating in the downstream of Da River. Currently, in addition to fishing
activities, many households are boldly investing in floating-cagefish
breeding for more stable income.
Compared to 2011, the rate
of poor households in the village decreased to 5.7 percent (only one out of the
22 households is in the list of the poor households), with the annual per
capita income reaching over 35 million VND (up 21 million VND).
Catholics have also joined hands in promoting the new-style
rural area building movement in various forms.
To ensure better living conditions for local residents, the local authorities
and Party organisations have given support to improving infrastructure
facilities and ensuring social security.
The communal authorities have
provided construction materials financed from the State budget for building
four road sections to the 100-metre river wharf.
Villagers and Catholics have contributed
working days to constructing the sections, which facilitate their fishing and aquaculture
activities.
Local Catholics also
contributed over 50 million VND to repairing and upgrading the Tan Thanh
parish’s chapel, as the local administration partially financed the work./.
Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, and other officials on April 8 examined some key transport projects, namely the road connecting Tran Hung Dao Road and Dan Chu ward with National Highway 6, the regional connectivity road linking Hoa Binh and Hanoi with Son La Expressway (Hoa Binh - Moc Chau), and the first phase of a road from Luong Son township of Hoa Binh to Xuan Mai township of Hanoi.
Hoa Binh province recorded nearly 20 cases of religion-related wrongdoings in 2023 and the first two months of 2024. However, thanks to their active and effective engagement, relevant agencies and religious organisations have helped the provincial and district-level People’s Committees deal with those cases in a timely manner and in line with legal regulations, thus ensuring religious freedom.
The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee held its monthly conference in virtual form on April 2 to review draft documents to be submitted to the standing board of the provincial Party Committee and others under its management along with some other important issues. Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh chaired the event, which was connected with the people's committees of districts and cities in Hoa Binh.
Smokeless 'Hoang Cam' kitchen was a small yet extremely significant initiative of a soldier chef named Hoang Cam in the Hoa Binh campaign in 1951 – 1952. This legendary stove, later named after him, accompanied the nation in the 1954 Dien Bien Phu Campaign, and during the resistance war against the US.
The 15th meeting of Hoa Binh province’s 17th-tenure Party organisation was held on March 26. Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Council Bui Duc Hinh, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh co-chaired the event.
Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, chaired a meeting of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board on March 21 to review the leadership over the implementation of tasks in the first quarter, identify focal tasks and solutions for the second quarter, and discuss some important draft reports.
