Jesuit communities and works in Australia have been actively working to improve their environmental sustainability for many years, according to surveys conducted by the Australian Jesuit Province: Reconciliation with Creation (RwC) Advisory Group. Last August, the group administered a survey … Continued
Five years ago, Colégio de Santo Inácio de Loiola (CSIL) took in its first intake of Year 7 students. In December this year, those students will be the first Year 12 cohort to graduate from this Jesuit school in Timor-Leste. … Continued
Discernment. Collaboration. Mission. These three words were used frequently during last week’s Major Superiors Assembly of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific. From beginning to end, the meeting was a period of grace, a time for the major superiors to … Continued
API. The Indonesian word for “fire” or “flame” and the acronym for the new network of Jesuit schools formed to raise the standard of teacher education in Asia Pacific. The idea for the Asia Pacific Interactive (API) Jesuit Education Consortium … Continued
Students of Sophia University and the four Jesuit high schools in Japan had the rare opportunity to speak with Pope Francis via a live television hook-up between the Vatican and Japan. Speaking in Spanish, the Pope answered eight questions chosen … Continued
As a child, Sr Wei Wei spent a summer listening to Bible stories elaborated by a young volunteer in a market place in her village. “She used Bible pictures and we children enjoyed it like that,” she recalls with a … Continued
The JCAP youth ministry is going from strength to strength. At just their second Magis Asia Pacific gathering, the youth were teaching each other about Ignatian spirituality. Instead of the usual model where a Jesuit serves as the teacher and … Continued
Women religious partnerships with JRS have become a vital element in aiding displaced people wherever there is need. This was the case 37 years ago, when then Jesuit Superior General, Pedro Arrupe SJ, galvanised the international Jesuit community to aid … Continued
“How can we innovate our education ministry to respond to the 21st century, while remaining faithful to our tradition?” This was the big question that 33 scholastics and brothers in formation from 11 countries in Asia Pacific tried to address … Continued
On December 7, the JCAP tertians left Manila for their Christmas ministry in different provinces in northern Luzon, Philippines. Fr Stephan Lipke SJ, a German Jesuit missionary in Siberia, Russia, reflects on his experience of this Christmas ministry that concluded … Continued