The Pontifical Council for the Laity will hold a Congress for Asian Catholic Laity on the theme: “Proclaiming Jesus Christ in Asia Today”. The Congress will take place in Seoul, Korea from August 31 to September 5, 2010 at a conference center adjacent to the Cathedral. This initiative arises within the Pontifical Council for the Laity’s practice of periodically organising regional congresses for Catholic laity with their bishops according to geographical and cultural areas with the purpose of... Read more

To my Venerable Brother Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity I was pleased to learn that the Congress of Asian Catholic Laity will be held in Seoul from 31 August to 5 September 2010. I ask you kindly to convey my cordial greetings and prayerful good wishes to the Bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful from Asia assembled for this significant pastoral... Read more

From August 31 to September 5, 2010, the Congress of lay Catholics in Asia was held in Seoul, South Korea. It is the tradi­tion of the Pontifical Council for the Laity to convene a Congress of laity involved in the Church accompanied by their pastors, from a geopolitical region or continent, so that they can meet, discuss and help each other in a... Read more