SIXTH POST-SYNODAL MEETING FOR SPECIAL ASSEMBLY FOR ASIA

VATICAN CITY, NOV 27, 2002 (VIS) - The Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops for the Special Assembly for Asia held its sixth meeting November 19-20 under the presidency of Cardinal Jan Schotte, C.I.C.M., in the presence of three cardinals, the patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, three archbishops, three bishops and four Synod staff members.

The meeting was divided into two plenary sessions, an afternoon of individual study and a group work session. Cardinal Schotte opened the encounter with an account of the activity of the General Secretariat since its last meeting in November 2001, and council members then reported on the situations in their own countries.

In the concluding plenary session, following the oral reports of the two work groups, members composed a list of urgent pastoral needs that will be brought to the attention of episcopal conferences with reference to the post-synodal document. They then decided to hold the next meeting on November 18-19, 2003.

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