Christian Conference of Asia

Physical health is foundational to meeting emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual needs, affirm experts of modern and traditional medicines at CCA’s Symposium

Posted on 5 August 2021

Health and wellness offer a clear path towards healthy aging, and physical health is foundational to meeting emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual needs, affirmed experts of modern and traditional medicines at the CCA’s online Symposium on ‘Family Life and Family Values: Transition from Tradition to Modernity’. The three-day event, focused on the challenges to family […]

 

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Authentic love surmounts the worst barriers to strengthen familial relations, says Catholic Bishops Conferences official at CCA Symposium

Posted on 5 August 2021

“Authentic love surmounts the worst barriers. We must prioritise dialogue, quality time, valuing the other, and keeping an open mind – all of which are essential for fostering love in the family,” said Fr. Emmanuel K. Rozario, Executive Secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC) Office for Laity. Speaking at the Christian Conference […]

 

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Symposium on ‘Family Life and Family Values: Transition from Tradition to Modernity’ commences

Posted on 3 August 2021

The Christian Conference of Asia’s (CCA) online Symposium on ‘Family Life and Family Values: Transition from Tradition to Modernity’ commenced on Tuesday, 3 August 2021. The Symposium is being attended by over 50 specially invited representatives comprising clergy, lay leaders, pastoral counsellors, social workers, and family healthcare providers from across Asia. Addressing the...

 

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CCA to organise Regional Symposium on ‘Family Life and Family Values: Transition from Tradition to Modernity’

Posted on 30 July 2021

  The Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) will organise and facilitate an Asia Regional Symposium on ‘Family Life and Family Values: Transition from Tradition to Modernity’ from Tuesday 3 August to Thursday 5 August. The online programme will be facilitated through Zoom and held from 13:00 to 17:00 hrs (1 PM to 5 PM) Bangkok […]

 

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“Asian churches’ responses to human trafficking must be survivor-led and trauma-informed,” says CCA General Secretary on World Day against Trafficking in Persons

Posted on 30 July 2021

“The responses of churches to trafficking must be survivor-led and trauma-informed. Churches must also continue to honour and amplify the voices of survivors as part of effective and comprehensive anti-trafficking strategies that advance prosecution, protection, and prevention efforts,” said the Christian Conference of Asia’s General Secretary Dr Mathews George Chunakara, in a message...

 

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Global access to vaccines an urgent moral and ethical imperative, affirms CCA Consultation

Posted on 22 July 2021

Participants of the CCA’s virtual Consultation on ‘Towards Vaccine Equity amidst COVID-19 Surge in Asia’ CHIANG MAI: “As faith communities, we must support and amplify the need for equitable sharing of vaccines and enforceable frameworks for vaccine development and distribution; countries must be bound by agreements rather than arbitrary limits which maximise profits for a […]

 

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CCA to hold an online Consultation on vaccine equity amidst COVID-19 surge in Asia

Posted on 16 July 2021

A virtual Consultation on ‘Towards Vaccine Equity amidst COVID-19 Surge in Asia’ will be organised by the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), which will be held on Tuesday 20 July 2021 from 12:00 to 16:30 (12 PM to 4:30 PM) Bangkok (Thailand) time. Vaccine equity continues to be a major obstacle for Asian countries, several […]

 

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CCA mourns the demise of His Holiness Catholicos Baselios Marthoma Paulose II of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in India

Posted on 12 July 2021

The Supreme Head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in India, His Holiness Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, has passed away. His Holiness was 74 years of age. The septuagenarian Catholicos of the Indian Orthodox Church had been undergoing treatment for cancer for the past two years. While expressing condolences, the General Secretary of […]

 

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“Instilling hope and positive attitude for gender equality is a way to build a just society,” affirm participants of CCA consultation

Posted on 10 July 2021

Participants of the CCA’s virtual consultation on ‘Ensure gender equality; empower women and lift up humanity’ CHIANG MAI: The participants in a regional Consultation affirmed that instilling hope and positive attitude for gender equality is a way to build a just society as well as to empower women and men. A two-day online Consultation on […]

 

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CCA’s consultation to focus on ‘Towards Vaccine Equity amidst COVID-19 Surge in Asia’

Posted on 9 July 2021

An online consultation on ‘Towards Vaccine Equity amidst COVID-19 Surge in Asia’ will be organised and facilitated by the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), on 20 July 2021 from 12:00 to 16:30 (12 PM to 4:30 PM) Bangkok (Thailand) time. The CCA will organise this online consultation in order to understand various challenges in increasing […]

 

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