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Caritas Việt Nam (or Caritas Vietnam) is a Catholic charitable organization in Vietnam. It is also known as the Commission on Charity and Social Actions (Ủy ban Bác ái Xã hội) of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam (CBCV). Caritas Việt Nam is a member of the global Caritas International confederation.
Initially created in 1960s for South Vietnam, and officially re-founded in 1980 after the reunification of Vietnam, the CBCV is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy (i.e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops) in Vietnam.
The Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) is an association of episcopal conferences of Catholic Church in South, Southeast, East and Central Asia.The federation fosters solidarity and joint responsibility for the welfare of the Church and of society in the region.
An episcopal conference, often also called a bishops’ conference or conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities.
The Catholic Church had technically banned the practice of selling indulgences as long ago as 1567. As the Times points out, a monetary donation wouldn't go amiss toward earning an indulgence.
The Catholic Church in Vietnam comprises solely a Latin rite hierarchy, joint in a national episcopal conference, comprising three metropolitan archdioceses and 24 suffragan dioceses. There are no Eastern Catholic, (missionary) pre-diocesan or other exempt jurisdictions.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam was founded in 1980. In 1976, the Holy See made Archbishop Joseph-Marie Trịnh Như Khuê the first Vietnamese cardinal . Joseph-Marie Cardinal Trịnh Văn Căn in 1979, and Paul-Joseph Cardinal Phạm Đình Tụng in 1994, were his successors.
1.22 Episcopal Conference of Vietnam. 1.22.1 Ecclesiastical Province of Hanoi. ... The Catholic Church in Asia has dioceses in most countries.