Despite young lay leaders working for “social ministries” have played an important role in bridging Church to societies in Asia, encouraging and empowering them through accessible education or training has not been hardly provided by any formal education institutes in the local churches except some lay organizations. But their supports have often stopped at a short term or an event based occasion. Recognizing it deeply, ALL Forum is to provide them with a solid and systematic formation program for them.

ALL Forum is committed to training and educating young Church workers about urgent matters in  Asia today such as youth, women and girl children, ecology, migrants, Indigenous peoples (IPs) and other marginalized whom Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) has designated  as the subjects of “special pastoral concerns” by harnessing the Catholic Social Teachings (CSTs)  and “Pastoral Spiral” methodology of FABC. Especially ALL Forum is to provide young lay  leaders with a combined program like Asian Youth Academy (AYA)/ Asian Theology Forum  (ATF), “Moving School” for those who cannot afford to join AYA/ATF which has been holding  on a national or regional level, and online courses on CSTs, basic theology and lay spirituality especially thrived during the covid19 much affected in Asia.

As an effective and relevant spiritual formation project for young activists, the AYA/ATF places  much emphasis on their religious identity amid the all-things-mixed global world. It also aims to  make them what Pope Francis calls “missionary disciples” armed well with strong Christian  identity with socio-political awareness, socio-cultural analysis and spiritualties from various  religions. Combination of AYA with ATF is to be an intensive and effective tool for “witnessing  the Gospel” by developing and strengthening the youth’s Christian identity and deepening their  critical idea and knowledge on the society in Asia including the matters of interreligious dialogue,  peacebuilding and working together for common good knowing Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and  IP religious traditions predominating the largest continent in the world. ALL Forum has done the  AYA/ATF for the last 10 years so far.  All the three programs are based on theo-spiritual approach as a contextual doing theology, or  “theology of relevance” to Asian peoples and cultures.