228 His Mission, Our Mission “Certainly, with the COVID-19 pandemic, ICT was an especially important means of communication not only for religion but for all kinds of political and social institutions. “ICT development has so thoroughly changed the way we think, behave and interact, and has presented so many pastoral challenges to the Church and society that we cannot help but focus our attention on this fast-changing reality.” Apart from his role with the ARC, Fr Anthony is a lecturer at the Lux Mundi National Major Seminary of Thailand and is also engaged in ministry with Vietnamese migrants. He recently published a Vietnamese language book entitled Vietnamese Migrants in Asia: Reality and Pastoral Directions which was co-edited with a Vietnamese priest working in Japan, Fr Dominic Nguyen Quoc Thuan. The book, by Logos Publications, was released in January this year and has two main sections. The first deals with the theology of migration and Church social teachings on migration. The second part presents the pastoral contexts and directions regarding Vietnamese migrants in Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. “Almost all the authors are involved in Vietnamese migrant ministry to varying degrees, so a lot of the presentation comes
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