Asia-Pacific
Ecumenical News (APEN) provides news, information
and commentary of events and issues related to church,
ecumenical movement and civil society in the Asia-Pacific
region.
Its main mission is to provide, from
a people/life-centered perspective, news and views
of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity
that are accurate, balanced and informed.
Providing coverage of local, national,
regional and international issues that concerns the
church and society is among its major focus.
Dissemination
APEN disseminates news and information
to a wide audience of individuals, churches, related
organizations, faith-based movements, non-governmental
organizations and media in the region and outside
of it, through its web site and email.
Editorial office
The editorial offices are in Bangalore
and Hong Kong. National editorial offices will be
set up later in a few select places like Sydney, Bangkok,
Manila and Seoul.
Commitment
APEN is committed to the visible
unity of the churches. It will encourage and promote
interchurch cooperation at micro and macro level.
It is also committed to promotion
of healing and reconciliation for justice and peace,
integration of ecology and health, enhancement of
people’s security and sovereignty for life and
peace, empowerment of local economy of life, global
inter-local ecumenism, ecumenically sustainable local
faith-based communities, and gender justice. It will
stand for the concerns of the poor and the marginalized
in the church and society.
Helping people’s movements
and initiatives in building counter-cultures and alternative
communities in the Asia-Pacific region is of utmost
importance to it.
It will strive to motivate people
to reflect and act to build communities of just-peace,
promoting ecumenical process on healing and reconciliation.
APEN will play an important role
in strengthening the Asia-Pacific ecumenical process
on healing and reconciliation by including and promoting
the following concerns.
1. People
and life-centeredness
• Local and inter-local contextual
ecumenical initiatives
• People-centered inter-faith NGOs network
• Provincial foci
• People’s stories
• Stories of local and inter-local churches
2. Justice-centered
healing and reconciliation
• Integrating ecology and health
to enhance the wholeness of the earth household
• Enhancing marginalized people’s security
and sovereignty for life and peace
• Empowering local economy of life developing
alternative communities
3. Global inter-local
ecumenism
• Organizing ecumenical cells
for local churches
• Sharing personnel and financial resources
inter-locally
• Developing global inter-contextual mission
initiatives
• Advocating international affairs in the midst
of globalization
• Concentrating on focal areas for inter-linkages
with people’s movements.
Management
APEN is managed by a board of directors.
It also has a board of advisors from different parts
of the region.
Board Members
Rev Lee Seung Young (President)
Fr Dr K M George
Rev Dr Lee Hong Jung
Rev Park Chang Bin
Rev Judy Chan
Ms Necta Montes Rocas
Advisory
Board
Dr Ahn Jae Woong
Dr Kim Yong Bock
Fr Franz-Josef Eilers
Mr Francis Wong Ka
Mr Ranjan Solomon
Mr Caesar D'Mello
Ms Carmencita Karagdag
Rev Dr David Gill
Rev Kim Mung Kee
Rev Prof James Haire
Rev Shin Seung Min
Ms Sabine Minninger
Ms Soonim Lee
Rev Toshimasa Yamamoto
Mr Ramon Bultron
Suffragan Metropolitan Dr Zacharias Mar Theophilus
Ms. Susan Jacob
Editorial Consultant
Mr Bruce Van Voorhis
Chief Editor
Philip Mathew
Email:editor@apenews.org
apenews@gmail.com
Phone
(Mobile) +91 9945578898
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