CCA Executive Committee
The Executive Committee of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) met in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 17–19 January 2024.
CCA General Secretary, Dr Mathews George Chunakara, presented the General Secretary’s Report at the CCA Executive Committee Meeting. Highlights of the report include:
- the several challenges to Christian witness in Asia, such as religious intolerance and religio-ethnic violence, the politicisation of religion, authoritarianism, and ultra-nationalism, and shrinking civil space, among others.
- the conflict in Myanmar, a “forgotten country” in the ecumenical movement.
- the new trends of emigration of Asian Christians...causing their numbers to shrink further in their own homelands
“Today, an emerging concern is whether Asia will become the least Christianised region of the world soon, given the fact that population is ageing and young people are migrating to the West.
"If changing demography among Asian Christians continues, one can expect a decrease in the Asian Christian population in the near future,” remarked Dr Mathews George Chunakara.
CCA Public Statement January 2024
pdf CCA Executive Committee Statement 2024 (255 KB)
First meeting of newly elected CCA Executive Committee commences in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Above: Newly elected Executive Committee members at the headquarters of Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Photo credit: CCA)
The 15th General Assembly of the CCA, held from 27 September to 4 October 2023 in Kottayam, India, elected three Officers and seventeen members of the Executive Committee, including the Chairperson of the Programme Committee.
NCCA President, Rev John Gilmore was elected to the Committee, he is 2nd left in the back row.
