On November 16-20, the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs (OEIA) held in Thailand the 6th Bishops’ Institute for Interreligious Affairs (BIRA VI) to celebrate 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate.
Attending the conference included 87 participants from 17 different countries. The Vietnam Catholic Church sent a delegation consisting of 4 members led by Bishop Tri Bửu Thiên of Can Tho diocese to attend the event.
The sixth BIRA conference tackled challenges confronting the Catholic Church as well as other religions in Asia including various conflicts and violence, massive poverty and global inequality, the increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, pollution and environmental crisis, corruption and moral degradation, human trafficking. The conference’s joint statement also reaffirmed the strong need of the “triple dialogue” with the poor, cultures and religions, struggle against any kind of fundamentalism, terrorism and proselytism.
Source: hdgmvietnam.org
