Attending the event were representatives from the Government Committee on Religious Affairs, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee in the southern region, local authorities and other religious organisations in the city.
Nguyen Huu Nhon, head of the management board of the Nam Thanh Oratory, which hosted the celebration, called on religious officials and adherents of Caodaism to do more for great national unity and the construction and defence of the nation.
Over the years, religious officials and adherents of Caodaism at the Nam Thanh Oratory have actively participated in patriotic emulation movements and humanitarian programmes such as free health check-ups and the provision of medicines for poor people.
Caodaism, which was founded in 1926, is one of the major religions in Vietnam, with 10,000 religious officials, along with about 2.5 million adherents in Vietnam and 30,000 living overseas. The religion has 1,300 places of worship in 37 provinces and cities nationwide.
The founding of the religion is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the tenth lunar month by most religious officials and adherents.
However, several sects, including the Nam Thanh Oratory, consider the twenty-third day of the eighth lunar month (September 23) as the day when the religion was founded.
