Since 2017, ALL Forum has conducted the “Moving school” for Youth in many countries in Asia such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. In Asian context, it is natural that the ALL Forum’s programs put more stress on religious plurality and dialogue among religions and cultures in the continent. Asian Christian youth are  living in a complex situation, being part of a minority religion and having such diverse religious traditions including those from Indigenous Peoples’ (IPs) communities and various local cultures including those from Sabah, Malaysia, where the 2023 Moving School is planned to be held in the coming November, 2023. They have experienced and even suffered from denying their own cultures. Sometimes, they feel a sense of guilt because some of their families are a tribe’s leaders or shamans and related to IPs’ traditional religions prescribed as ‘superstitions’ which is not in uncommon.

For this reason, ALL Forum needs to ensure and inspire young people that their religious and cultural traditions are a special gift as a relevant and profound source to make Catholicism in general relevant and renewed and Asian Catholicism in particular an emerging church based on its intercultural spirituality and interculturality. Laypeople are the ones who live their daily lives specifically, so in this sense lay spirituality is of everyday spirituality. Everything revealed in our daily lives is God’s presence, and it does not ask for discrimination among religions. Cultural diversity is something we must care for, preserve, and accept as gift, so that we can be enriched by them as experiences of the Great Spirit of God among all of us. Not religious dualism nor discrimination, but the abundance of various religious traditions in Asia, is what Catholicism means to be and what should be significant feature of universal church. Such diversity flowing throughout Asia is a main source that can provide rich theological ideas and spiritual inspiration to the world churches. These terminologies of religio-cultural diversity not from theory but people’s lives themselves, lay spirituality based on daily life, and intercultural citizenship which embraces Western citizenship or civility culminated in modernity for the betterment of the world including the church, and adult-faith development through which Christians are to be flourishing or blooming not only being survived are the keywords needed to be put as overarching ideas for all the programs of ALL Forum.