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At the requiem

Due to the complicated developments of the pandemic, the event was limited to about 200 attendees with COVID-19 prevention and control regulations ensured strictly. The ceremony was streamed live on the digital platforms of HCMC’s Buddhist Portal and Giac Ngoc Online Newspaper. 

Representatives of the Standing Board of the VBS’s Executive Council, leaders of the municipal Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, Religious Affairs Committee, and Committee for Mass Mobilization, together with monks, nuns, Buddhist followers, and relatives of deceased victims of COVID-19 attended the event.

The program had two main parts: Mass rituals and traditional and spiritual rituals. The first part took place in a solemn atmosphere in order to show gratitude to the front-line forces in the fight against the pandemic and people who died due to COVID-19.

The ceremony not only helped ease the pain of the victims’ relatives and families but also raised the public awareness of pandemic prevention and control in the new normal state.

After the grand requiem, the religious leaders and Buddhists together recited sutras for 45 minutes and performed a meal offering ceremony for the deceased.

On this occasion, many pagodas and Buddhist monasteries in the city also held requiems for deceased victims of COVID-19 via various forms while well ensuring pandemic prevention and control.

Translated by Minh Anh