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17 January 2018

2017 at a glance

Categories: JCAP News

2017 was a memorable year for the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific. From Fr General Arturo Sosa’s first visit to Asia Pacific to the inauguration of two Jesuit schools, a new JCAP President and the visit of Pope Francis to Myanmar, here are the top 12 events for the Jesuit Conference in 2017.

FEBRUARY 8

JCAP Education launches the “Ignatian Initiative for Teaching Excellence” to address formation needs of Jesuit primary and secondary schools in the region

MARCH 25

Jesuit Social Services marks 40 years of delivering social change programmes across Australia

JUNE 5

Australian Jesuit Province announces divestment from fossil fuels

JULY 11 to 22

Fr General Arturo Sosa SJ makes his first official trip to Asia Pacific

Read: Fr General stresses shared mission and common discernment in first visit to JCAP

Click here for a full coverage of Fr General Sosa’s visit

JULY 13: Fr General Sosa dialogues with Muslim scholars and concelebrates the Ordination Mass of six Indonesian Jesuit priests in Indonesia

JULY 15: He meets with Buddhist monks in Cambodia, his first time in a Buddhist country
JULY 18 to 22: He joins the JCAP Major Superiors in their meeting in Singapore

 

JULY 30

Work begins on the cause for the beatification of Filipino Jesuit scholastic Richie Fernando SJ

AUGUST 19

Xavier Learning Community, the Jesuit school serving mainly ethnic minorities in Thailand, officially opens

SEPTEMBER 29

The Jesuits take on St Michael’s Parish in Nanhlaing village, a conflict zone in Myanmar

OCTOBER 7

The quasi-parish of Railaco in Timor-Leste is canonically erected as a parish

OCTOBER 8

Ricci Social Services celebrates 30 years of serving people affected by leprosy or living with HIV/AIDS in Mainland China and Macau

NOVEMBER 22

Fr Antonio Moreno SJ takes over as JCAP President from Fr Mark Raper SJ who had served as President for nine years

NOVEMBER 29

Pope Francis meets with the Jesuits in Myanmar during his visit to the country

DECEMBER 2

Xavier Jesuit School in Sisophon, Cambodia is formally inaugurated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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