National Meeting of the Filipino-Chinese Apostolate
On September 29-30, 2023 the Filipino-Chinese Apostolate held its annual meeting at Xavier School in Greenhills, San Juan City. It was attended by the delegates from the different schools, parishes, and institutions related to the Chinese-Filipino Apostolate. The Lorenzo Ruiz Mission Society and the Lorenzo Mission Institute participated in that important event. The updating of the Filipino-Chinese Apostolate highlighted the challenges of the influx of new Chinese migrants in the Philippines that form a new cultural identity. They are called the xin chiao. It is important that the Church has to find ways in order to evangelize them. In fact, one of the ways was to apply the method used by Alpha.org which fosters group dynamics to build relationships with people of different walks of life and seeking new ways of evangelization. Fr. Aristotle Dy, SJ and the others speakers like Elizabeth Lopez who is the Regional Development Director said that the people today especially the young are no longer event oriented but relationship oriented. The talks encouraged the participants to search for more effective ways to evangelize by seeking new relationships with different people especially the Chinese-Filipinos in the Philippines.