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IRD, Building Bridges, Bearing Fruit |
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Written by Dr. Steven Selvarajau, STD
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
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The Cover Story theme "Interreligious Dialogue" (IRD) was chosen in the light of the theme proposed by the Peninsular Malaysia Pastoral Team (PMPT) for the month of October, which is "Building Relationships with People of Other Beliefs".
While preparing the editorial for this month's issue, I came across two interesting facts.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 28 September 2009 )
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The Catholic Church & People of Other Religions |
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Written by Dr. Sherman Kuek, SFO
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
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Can those of other religions be "saved"?
ONE of the complications arising from living in Asia stems from the religious composition of the Asian population. The Asian continent is the very source of the world religions that thrive in the world today: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and a good many other religions.
Having to make sense of this plethora of religions together with their variety of truth claims must be disconcerting to the Asian man on the street. This is so even for those of us who follow Jesus Christ, who call ourselves Christians. Over the centuries, Asian Christians have come to make sense of these other religions among them in different ways. There are two prevalent notions I would like to briefly explicate here:
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Last Updated ( Monday, 28 September 2009 )
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Written by John D'Cruz, Anthony Gomez, Dr. William Lau & Lillian Liew
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
Reflections and Experiences
THE TEAM from the Archdiocesan Ministry for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs (AMEIA) were asked to share some of their thoughts on the four forms of interreligious dialogue. Some are observations, whilst others are from personal experiences.
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Written by Various Contributors
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
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COVER STORIES
Demolishing the Tower of Babel: Dealing with Ethnocentricity
by Rev. Fr. Michael Chua
Managing Religious Differences
by Rufus Bruno Pereira
Evangelisation & Dialogue - Complimentary or Contradiction
by Rev. Fr. Michael Chua
Come and See ...! - A Scriptural Reflection based on John 1:38-39
By Dr. Steven Selvaraju, STD
YEAR OF THE PRIEST SERIES
Be Priest in/of Dialogue
by Rev. Dr. Jojo M. Fung, SJ.
FOCUS
Dialogue October
by Rufus Bruno Pereira
MALAYSIA
"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out"
by Joy Appukuttan
The Catholic Lawyer's Society hand over a memorandum querying the inaction over the recent Al Islam controversy.
Read the memorandum here.
Read the Press Statement here.
Reflections on Bro. Lawrence
by Terence Netto
CAN QUESTION
How Do I Pray?
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