MANILA– With the theme “Frontiers, Dialogue and Discernment,” the Loyola School of Theology (LST) organized an International Theological Symposium held at the Leong Hall of the Ateneo de Manila University last March 16. While social media grant us easy and instant communication, real time news and information discovery as well as help us exercise our freedom of expression, build networks and find people with similar interests with us, it also degrades face to face interactions, provides venue for ranting, creates factions, and causes lesser productivity and family closeness, she explained. Contrary to common belief, “the nations in Asia are not pagans or heathens or superstitious and immoral people living under the reign of the devil but [the people] are deeply religious with their own ways to God.” He also invited everyone to look at the Church’s missionary activities not with the goal of church-planting or conversion of non-Catholics but as a “reciprocal mission among and in the midst of Christians and believers of other religions.” As Christians, we are called to foster a spirit of collaboration with other people whose faith may be different from the Catholic faith in order “to promote a world of justice, peace and reconciliation,” Fr.
