Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples

Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples is an independent organisation based in Hong Kong with an Asian focus, seving the promoting on justice and peace in the region.

In the name of Allah

In the late 1980s, when I was in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, a friend suggested that I drive out into the desert near Jubail to see the oldest extant Christian church in the world. (Gwynne Dyer, The Korea Times)

Mission, outreach focus for Southeast Asian Catholic universities

Much of the focus of Catholic universities in Asia, particularly in Southeast Asia, lies in the mission and outreach of those in need.

Youth ministers want greater church dynamism

Youth ministers say they are taking up the challenge of helping Asian youths inject creativity and passion into Church activities.
“Young people have to feel a spirit of community and hospitality in church, and youths might be the best people to provide them with it,” a participant at the Nov. 27-30 Asian Youth Ministers Meeting (AYMM) [...]

Youths commit to developing their potential

The Asian Youth Day ended Nov. 27 with a call to “YAsians” or young Asians to build bridges of peace, understanding and love in society. (UCA News)
The fifth Asian Youth Day, held in Cavite province of the Philippines, began on Nov. 20 and ended on Nov. 27. The event focused on the Eucharist.
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Challenges for the Church in a ‘cultural kaleidoscope’

We are all products of the culture into which we were born and the Church itself both influences and is influenced by the cultures of its people, says Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato. (UCA News)
Asia is a “kaleidoscope” of different cultures but with some common elements, said the Filipino Oblate archbishop, secretary general of the Federation [...]

“Calling Asia”, in the footsteps of St Francis Xavier

This is a clip featuring Patrick Goh’s “Calling Asia” shot in Malacca, Malaysia. The clip is from the program “In the Footsteps of Francis Xavier” produced by Taiwan’s broadcast NGO Kuangchi Program Service.
It was uploaded by YouTube user wzhangy in August 2008.
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Calling Asia (YouTube)

Asian women religious caught between ideals, realities

Asian Catholic women religious leaders find themselves entering an uncertain limbo, caught between their church’s gospel teachings and lofty pro-women rhetoric, on the one hand; and limiting, social, cultural and ecclesial realities, on the other. (Thomas C. Fox, National Catholic Reporter)
It seems this is a place where countless educated Catholic women throughout [...]

Synod opts for South-South over North-South talks

The African Synod has welcomed Archbishop Orlando B. Quevedo’s plea for South-South dialogue and collaboration between the churches in Africa, Asia and Latin America but did not take up the Filipino prelate’s call for a similar North-South initiative.
In its final communique, the synod agreed to accept the call for so-called “South-South” collaboration between the Churches [...]

Asia-Oceania sisters in solidarity with US colleagues

Women religious leaders from 17 nations gathered under the auspices of AMOR, the Asia-Oceania Meeting of Religious, have issued a statement of solidarity with US women religious who are facing two Vatican investigations.
The women began their nine-day conference Oct. 13, and addressed their message to “our sisters of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious”, [...]

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