PANO – The Standing Board of the Central Council for Defense and Security Education and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front co-organized a training course, on July 27 Morning in Thua Thien-Hue province, on defense and security knowledge for religious dignitaries.

Trainees were heads of religious organizations in the North and Central Highlands and the religious dignitaries who were newly elected to the 8th term Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front. 

Delegates attending the training course

Vice Chairman of the Standing Board of the Central Council for Defense and Security Education, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, Lieutenant General Nguyen Phuong Nam was in charge of directing the training course.

The course included several major special subjects, such as the Party’s guidelines and viewpoints and State’s policies and laws on relationships between religions, ethnic category and defense, security in the new context; national security protection, people security building, the people security posture in association with the building of people defense; and combat against hostile forces’ “Peaceful evolution” strategy and plots to overthrow the people’s government and provoke riots in Vietnam.

According to the organizers, the training course aimed to equip religious dignitaries with knowledge of defense and security, raise their awareness and responsibility for protecting political security, social order and safety, and promote unity in both thinking and action between the Vietnam Fatherland and religious organizations in conducting public education and information dissemination on the Fatherland defense and building missions.

Translated by Thu Nguyen