The DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-MANILA through the Emergent Program on Worldviews and Beliefs of the College of Liberal Arts held a National Conference with the theme “Theories and Practices of Interfaith Dialogue in the Philippines ” , from April 24 - 26, 2008. There were 146 delegates, with 25 paper presenters, including 4 plenary speakers. DLS-Philippines System President Bro. Armin Luistro delivered the Welcome Address.



The CIM chair, Dr. Jun Simbulan, presented  a paper  with the title, "Mind-Body Practices in Interfaith Dialogue : Hatha Yoga's Modern Applications".  

For more pictures, see http://interfaithphilippines.wordpress.com/

The Goals of this Conference were:

1. to bring together local/national practitioners and theoreticians dealing with Interfaith Dialogue; 
2. to identify, analyze, and indicate possible links/convergences of emerging field practices of and theoretical/academic approaches to Interfaith/Religious Dialogue; 
3. to encourage conversational exchanges among practitioners in order to document the diversity of practices both in the field and academic settings; 
4. to fortify relations among practitioners across regional, linguistic and religious boundaries.