(VOVworld)-The Hanoi Committee for Catholic Solidarity met Catholic representatives from 29 districts in the city to celebrate the upcoming Christmas season and the new year. The committee chairman, priest Duong Phu Oanh urged the city’s 185,000 Catholic followers to strive their utmost their strength in humanitarian activities to ease the misery of disadvantaged people on this occasion. The committee and the city’s authority departments offered congratulatory flowers to the Catholic community to mark the festive season.