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EPIDEMIC PREVENTION - ZERO VULNERABILITY

EPIDEMIC PREVENTION – ZERO VULNERABILITY

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PROPER HAND WASHING INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS ~ MULTI-LANGUAGE VERSION

The recent epidemic situation of the new Coronavirus (COVID19) is getting more and more serious. In order to promote the key measures of epidemic prevention, #Rerum Novarum Center has produced Proper Hand Washing Instructional Videos in Indonesian, Vietnamese and Filipino. We hope that migrant workers from the different countries will protect and manage their own health through the Proper Hand Washing method, which is the best protective measure at this stage.

 

 

2019.10.JesCom-Vietnam-youth-media-training

JesCom Vietnam trains young Catholics as communicators for the church

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In a span of 18 months, Jesuit Communications (JesCom) Vietnam trained nearly 300 young Vietnamese Catholics in media literacy through their Media Education Project.

Inspired by the CommLab programme of SIGNIS, the project, which was started by Fr Nguyen Van Yen SJ and CommLab programme alumnus Vi Cao, aimed at providing media skills and knowledge to young people and to connect them as a network from which they could find spiritual and practical support.

A total of 22 courses have been conducted for 286 young Catholics across the country since March 2017. The alumni network is coordinated by members empowered by the JesCom committee in Vietnam.

On September 29, the programme officially ended with an evaluation workshop. Twenty-two participants representing the 22 courses shared their experiences and motivations along with their vision for a future project that echoes the success of the programme.

“Our workshop invitation received a prompt response from youth groups, parishes, dioceses and individuals. However, we must not only ask what JesCom Vietnam can do for us, but also what we have to offer to the church through communications and JesCom,” said Deputy Head of JesCom Vietnam Brother Thien Kinh SJ.

The evaluation sought to improve the programme further by asking the participants to identify gaps in human resource allocation, decision-making processes, training content, network management and financial resources.

At the end of the workshop, Vo Quoc Vuong, an alumnus from the 14th training course in the Vinh Province said: “There are 24 members of our course and after a year, we still keep in touch with each other. We connect with each other beyond the skills we shared, we perform online evaluation every day and we do mission trips even though our financial support is limited and most of us are still students. As millennials, traveling to extremely poor areas and discovering the real struggle of children without basic needs such as clothes, food or school materials, and seeing a dedicated parish priest who has to run back and forth between chapels that are 70 kilometres apart made us burst into tears. We found the true reason for our mission as communicators.”

The Media Education Project will be renewed with improvements to better empower the youth with adequate communication tools.

2019.07.Having-fun-with-theology

“Having fun with theology”

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Fr Nguyen Hai Tinh SJ, Formation Delegate of the Vietnamese Jesuit Province, has started a series of online video lectures on theology designed for catechists, theology students and anybody interested in theology. Each episode lasts no more than 10 minutes and uses humour and animation to capture viewers’ attention.

The videos, which are posted weekly on Jesuit Communications Vietnam’s YouTube channel, offer easy-to-understand explanations in Vietnamese on subjects related to dogmatic theology such as, Introduction to Theology, Revelation of Faith, Scripture Tradition and Magisterium, Trinity, Christology and Eschatology.

Fr Tinh currently teaches theology at St Joseph Jesuit Scholasticate and at the Catholic Institute of Vietnam of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Vietnam. He has a Doctorate in Sacred Theology, with a specialisation in dogmatic theology from the Gregorian University in Rome.

The Vietnamese priest has constantly sought out effective ways of teaching theology. He found that there are many videos online teaching a wide variety of subjects but it seemed to him that there was nothing on theology. This inspired him to start the online video lectures.

There are about 57 million active social media users in Vietnam and 71 per cent of those who access the Internet every day watch videos on a daily basis. Since it was launched, Fr Tinh’s videos have been watched more than 8,000 times.

In this interview, he talks with Jesuit Communications Vietnam about the process of developing each episode and how social media has helped him in his work of evangelisation.

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