“Asia is impelled by an irresistible desire to occupy her rightful place in the world, and
her influence is effectively increasing,” Pope Paul VI said in Manila in 1970, while
addressing a gathering of Asian bishops. That meeting became the start of the Federation of
Asian Bishops’ Conferences, which aims to build an Asian identity for the Churches in Asia
distinct from the socio-cultural realities of the Christian west. UCA News is proud to be
accompanying the FABC in its eventful journey.
