Representatives of the partner organizations of the “Asian Lay Leaders Forum” (ALL Forum) gathered in the Manila Archdiocese Office on 24th of November 2016 to officiate the organization as an nonprofit organization in Philippines. ALL Forum is a contextualized and praxis-centered collaboration among five partners: social issues – specialty of Woori Theology Institute based in Seoul, pastoral and lay-centered Institute of Formation-Fondacio Asia (IFFA) based in Manila, and mystical eco-spirituality and Asian-wisdom sensitive Jesuit Center for Indigenous Ministry (JCIM) & Research &Training Center for Religio-cultural Community (RTRC) based in Manila and Chiang Mai, and university-students-empowering Pax Romana – International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS) Asia Pacific based in Manila. It incorporates and develops some of their existing programs and initiatives for greater synergy for the globalizing Church of Asia. As IMCS – Pax Romana we are glad about this new collaboration as it will help us to fulfill our mission to bring the message of justice and peace as lay student missionaries. And also it was a special occasion for IMCS as all the representatives from collaborative organizations had been engaged with IMCS – Pax Romana as students during their college days or as chaplains. ALL Forum will work as a pioneer of Lay Leaders’ training in the coming years being true to the name of the organization under the patronage of Arch Bishop of Manila, Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle and the guidance of Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro Antonio Javellana Ledesma, S.J., D.D., and Bishop of Bangued Leopoldo C. Jaucian, SVD, D.D.
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