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Archbishop Cardinal Pham Minh Man
Ha Nam (VNA) – Archbishop Cardinal Pham Minh Man launched the Jubilee Year
2010 on November 23 with a call on the Vietnamese Catholics community to show love
to each other and to all for the development of the nation and society as a whole.
The opening ceremony for Vietnam ’s Jubilee Year 2010 was held at the So Kien
parish church in Kien Khe town, Thanh Lien district, the northern province of Ha
Nam .
The ceremony, held by the Vietnam Catholic Church, was attended by Cardinal Roger
Atchegaray, Vice-Dean of the Vatican ’s College of Cardinals, 60,000 local
Catholic followers, representatives from 26 dioceses nationwide as well as foreign
Catholic organisations, and officials from the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the
Government Committee for Religious Affairs and Ha Nam ’s authorities.
Ha Van Nui, Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee,
said the VFF has always valued the active contributions the Catholic followers have
made to the national great unity bloc and the nation’s struggle for liberation and
reunification.
Upholding the motto of “living religious and secular life in harmony” and
“accompanying with the nation”, the Catholic followers have continued to stand
shoulder to shoulder with the nation in surmounting difficulties and challenges to
achieve economic growth, maintain political stability and heighten the country’s
prestige in the global arena in the renewal cause, the VFF leader said.
In a letter announcing the Year to Catholics, Chairman of the Episcopal Council of
the Catholic Church in Vietnam , Bishop Peter Nguyen Van Nhon, called upon
Catholics to be good citizens and actively participate in building a just and equal
society, which will contribute to human and social development.
The opening ceremony of the Jubilee Year 2010, which mark the 50 th anniversary of
the establishment of the Catholic Hierarchy in Vietnam and the 350 th
anniversary of the founding of the northern and southern dioceses,
will run through November 24, 2009.
The closing ceremony of the Year will be organised on January 6, 2011 at the La Vang
Parish in the central province of Quang Tri.-Enditem
2010 on November 23 with a call on the Vietnamese Catholics community to show love
to each other and to all for the development of the nation and society as a whole.
The opening ceremony for Vietnam ’s Jubilee Year 2010 was held at the So Kien
parish church in Kien Khe town, Thanh Lien district, the northern province of Ha
Nam .
The ceremony, held by the Vietnam Catholic Church, was attended by Cardinal Roger
Atchegaray, Vice-Dean of the Vatican ’s College of Cardinals, 60,000 local
Catholic followers, representatives from 26 dioceses nationwide as well as foreign
Catholic organisations, and officials from the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the
Government Committee for Religious Affairs and Ha Nam ’s authorities.
Ha Van Nui, Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee,
said the VFF has always valued the active contributions the Catholic followers have
made to the national great unity bloc and the nation’s struggle for liberation and
reunification.
Upholding the motto of “living religious and secular life in harmony” and
“accompanying with the nation”, the Catholic followers have continued to stand
shoulder to shoulder with the nation in surmounting difficulties and challenges to
achieve economic growth, maintain political stability and heighten the country’s
prestige in the global arena in the renewal cause, the VFF leader said.
In a letter announcing the Year to Catholics, Chairman of the Episcopal Council of
the Catholic Church in Vietnam , Bishop Peter Nguyen Van Nhon, called upon
Catholics to be good citizens and actively participate in building a just and equal
society, which will contribute to human and social development.
The opening ceremony of the Jubilee Year 2010, which mark the 50 th anniversary of
the establishment of the Catholic Hierarchy in Vietnam and the 350 th
anniversary of the founding of the northern and southern dioceses,
will run through November 24, 2009.
The closing ceremony of the Year will be organised on January 6, 2011 at the La Vang
Parish in the central province of Quang Tri.-Enditem
