226 His Mission, Our Mission Founded in 1999, the Asian Research Centre for Religion and Social Communication is a centre for the study of religion and social communication and is housed at Saint John’s University, Bangkok. The initiative grew out of a roundtable organised in cooperation with the Office of Social Communication of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences for academics from different Asian countries and religious traditions on the relations between Religion and Social Communication in Asia. It is the only academic organisation which focuses on research connecting the field of Religion and Social Communication in the Asian context. Fr Anthony says, that as he takes over the role of Executive Director, there are a number of current priorities the Centre is working on. “One priority is to give voice to new researchers in the field, especially those coming from Asia,” he says. “One of the most rewarding aspects of my work with the ARC, which also includes being the editor-in-chief of the ARC journal, has been our role in assisting scholars to present and publish their research.” In the past year, Fr Anthony says he has worked with a Burmese priest, a Protestant Vietnamese doctoral candidate, a
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