No.3, September -
December
2004
| Perspective |
Alternative Education in the Context of a Pluralistic Society in Asia Pacific
Bible Study |
| Women Space |
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Response from a Young Woman to an article
written by the Vatican on the Role of Women The Bent Woman - a poem |
| Solidarity |
| Urgent Action on the Brutal Killing of SCM Philippines' senior friend Joel Baclao |
| Regional News |
| Movement News |
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| Editorial Team: Rev. Shin Seung Min Ms. Wong Yock Leng Ms. Wong Yick Ching |
Editorial
We will soon be approaching a new year. It is definitely a new year and not another year. A new year brings new hope in our lives. Perhaps 2004 has not been altogether a fantastic year for many of us or the world. We witnessed more conflicts, wars, people’s struggles and we ask ourselves when are all these stopping? Have human beings lost or forgotten our wisdom – the wisdom to discern the close connection that human beings have with each other, with the eco-system, and with the whole cosmic universe?
WSCF AP closes the old year with 2 important programmes, Student Empowerment for Transformation and the Asian Student and Youth Gathering. Both of these programmes studied on the issues of peace and justpeace education as an alternative form of higher education for the SCMers. It is hoped that the studies on peace and justpeace would herald a sense of wisdom – the wisdom that human beings need to recall to restore the abundance and dignity of Life. But definitely these 2 programmes will not be a closure as the year ends, the seeds of wisdom that have been planted into the students and youth will find a way to bloom in the coming years, and that is why we start a new year with new hopes.
WSCF AP wishes all our friends of Praxis a meaningful year in 2005, a year where we would work hard to harvest our new hopes.
Wong Yock Leng
Regional Women’s Coordinator