From 21^st to 22^nd March Provincial’s and Delegate of APC met together for their annual meeting at Amadeo. All Provincials and Delegate were present. Bro. Luigi Gagliardotto, the Roman Provincial along with Dr. Antonio Barnaba were present. Bro. Jose Manuel Leonardo from East Timor represented Bro. Jose Paulo from the Portuguese Provincial. Bro. Peter Van Peperstraten represented Oceania Province and Bro. Chris Kasoni represented PNG. Both General Councilors, Bro. Joseph Smith and Bro. Vincent attended the meeting as well. Korean Provincial secretary Ms. Lydia translated for Bro. John Jung and Bro. Paul translated for the Vietnamese provincial. Dr. Maria Lee, chair of the regional Bio ethics commission attended the meeting and presented a report about the Bio ethics commission activities in the region.

Bro. John Jung, the chair of the commission chaired the meeting. After the welcome address of Bro. John Jung and the address of the president Bro. Vincent, Bro. Joseph Van presented the regional formation report. There are 13 novices, 9 novices in the second year and 4 in the first year. 6 novices come from Vietnam, 2 novices from Philippines and 5 novices from East Timor. There are no postulants but there are 2 candidates in the postulant’s house and studying English before they enter into the postulancy. There are also 3 candidates in the Philippine Provincial Delegation, two from Sri Lanka and one from Pakistan.

The meetings also discussed the following points among other matters.

1. The Commission members discussed about the future of Papua New Guinean Brothers, The participants all agreed the fact that as we are all Brothers we have the obligation to support and care our Brothers in PNG. Bro. Vincent has informed the members the various options suggested by the General government and the General Government is on the process to find a solution. The meeting also suggested to start a process of dialogue between Philippine Brothers and PNG Brothers, as all the members of the Provincial delegation of Philippines are in favor of giving support to the PNG Brothers.

2. Provincial’s and delegate are recommitted to support the formators in the regional formation house by sending at least two more Brothers from the region to assist the novice Master and the postulant Master.

3. The meeting identified the urgency of preparing Brothers as formators. Provincials are asked to choose few Brothers from their provinces to prepare as formators as a matter of urgency.

4. The meeting has also identified that the various regional commission needs to strengthen their activities and to conduct regular meetings and seminars on each area of commission in order to animate the Brothers and Co-Workers. 

After the meeting the participants also attended the jubilee celebration of Bro. Romanito Salada from the Provincial delegation of Philippines on 23^rd March 2024.