At the beginning of the Third Millennium, the Church in Asia should consider the promotion of justice and peace as a constitutive part of integral evangelisation. With a renewed consciousness of the dignity conferred by baptism and the responsibility for the mission of love and service to the people of Asia, the Church is striving together to embrace the divine mandate in bringing about the joy of having found a treasure and the desire of sharing it with others.

        In participating at the service of human development, the Church in Asia should pay attention at preserving the spiritual foundations in such a way that the social development would be authentic and credible by make use of the pedagogy of Jesus. The Church in Asia is respected by the people not only because of all the innumerable services of human promotion, but particularly loved by the people because of her authenticity in living out the Gospel of Jesus in and through an integral Christian life.

Some Pastoral Recommendations

        In response to this call, the Church in Asia is to be encouraged to be ready and willing to renew the way of thinking and the methodology and pedagogy of implementing development works, particularly in the area of justice and peace, therefore the Church in Asia needs:

• To encourage and support the model of human development based on the culture of life and the civilisation of love, by developing life-giving Christian perspective based on the Gospel and the Social Teachings of the Church on behalf of the human family. The social teachings of the Church must be put into practice taking into account the most prevailing injustices in the Church and in the world.

• To promote and participate in elaborating a system of social development which is people centred, financial transparent and accountability, ecologically sustainable, with an ethics of solidarity and justice that leads to harmony and peace. In view of this is essential that the Church should give priority to education for justice and formation in social spirituality at all levels of pastoral concerns.

• To encourage collaborative actions through genuine multi-cultural and interreligious dialogue in order to develop a global alliance of solidarity and hope on behalf the people, especially the poor, marginalised and those deprived of their human rights. This is to be implemented in collaboration with the other Offices of the FABC, Episcopal Conferences and Dioceses.

• To disseminate the social teachings of the Church especially among lay women and men as Christian foundations for a more meaningful living out of their vocation and mission in the Church and in the world.

• To search for new and creative approaches in inculcating Gospel values in the works of human development. This needs to be done in all our apostolic endeavours for enhancing human dignity and defending human rights.