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More than 100,000 Cao Dai pilgrims flocked to the Cao Dai Church in southern Tay Ninh province for a vegetarian banquet of the Dieu Tri Palace on September 14.

The annual banquet was held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month to welcome the Great Mother and the nine Goddesses of the Dieu Tri Palace. The event saw Caodaists nationwide converging in the Holy See to pray for propitious weather, prosperity and peace.

Representatives of provincial authorities attended the banquet. The Fatherland Front Central Committee and the Government Committee for Religious Affairs also sent flower baskets to congratulate the event.

Thuong Tam Thanh, head of the Executive Council of the Tay Ninh Cao Dai sect, said this year’s banquet was held to mark the reception of the revised Conventional Charter for the 2007-12 term.

On the occasion, he called on Cao Dai followers to continue to strengthen solidarity and promote the religion’s moral principles.

Source: VOVNews/VNA