Religious Delegation from Chinese Mainland visited Taiwan Region

January 8-16, 2011, a Religious Delegation from Chinese Mainland, with Deng Zongliang, Advisor of CCRP, Dao Shuren, Vice President of CCRP and Vice President of China Buddhist Association，Wei Yuanqi, Deputy Secretary-General and Secretariat Office Director of CCRP, Liu Yuanlong, Deputy Secretary-General of CCRP and Vice President and Secretary-General of Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, Ven. Ding Changyun, member of CCRP and Vice President of China Taoist Association, Adilijiang•Ajikelimu, member of CCRP and Vice President of China Islamic Association, and Rev.Kan Baoping, member of CCRP and Director-General of China Christian Council, paid a visit to Taiwan Island for inter-religious exchanges at the invitation of the Association of Religious Believers in Taiwan Region.

This was the first time that representatives from five major religious groups in Chinese Mainland visited Taiwan region jointly, which was attached great importance and warmly welcomed by religious groups in Taiwan. The delegation had audiences with Buddhist, Taoist, Islamic, Christian and Catholic leaders and representatives in Taiwan, like Ven. Zhang Cheng, Chairman of the Association of Religious Believers in Taiwan and so on, visited related religious groups and inter-religious organizations, and held an interfaith symposium themed Religions Serve the Society with religious believers in Taiwan, exchanging opinions on further cross-strait inter-religious exchanges, accelerating contribution of cross-strait religious groups to economic and social advancement, and facilitating the process of peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the unification of motherland, and so on.

The cross-straits delegation held an interfaith symposium themed Religions Serve the Society

The delegation with Ven. Zhang Cheng, Chairman of the Association of Religious Believers in Taiwan

The delegation with Master Hsing Yun of Fo Guang Shan Monastery

The delegation with Master Wei Chueh from Chuang Tai Chan Monastery