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Article: Indian Catholics' task is rediscovering Jesus' Asian face.(missionary work in Asia)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 4, 2001
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Midway through the Vatican Synod on Asia in April 1998, Cardinal Jozef Tomko reiterated the Vatican,s official position on missionary work in Asia. It must start, Tomko said, with the person of Jesus and his unique role in the salvation of all peoples.
Tomko, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was restating a position held for years by church officials in Rome. But it's one that many Asian bishops disavow.
Such a "proclamation" approach does not work in Asia where Catholics are a tiny minority, bishops insisted in synod interventions.
The Asians are calling for a subtler kind of evangelization, one characterized by ...