We start the year 2020 with a look back on some of the most significant events that happened in the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific in the last year. February 5Rome The diocesan phase of the process of beatification and … Continued
The New Year is a traditional time to contemplate both the past and the future, which made it a most suitable setting for the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) Scholastics and Brothers’ Circle workshop on Safeguarding and Protection of … Continued
Rerum Novarum, the Jesuit social centre in Taipei dedicated to serving disadvantaged workers in vulnerable situations, gave winter supplies to foreign fishermen to help keep them warm during the bitter cold of winter. In two occasions, Fr Hsu Sen-Yi SJ … Continued
More than 80 young people, including Jesuit and lay animators, ended 2019 and started off 2020 with the third Magis Asia Pacific gathering in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This year, the theme centred on diversity and Ignatian indifference with participants coming … Continued
Xavier Learning Community (XLC) is a Jesuit education project helping ethnic minorities in northern Thailand. They don’t just supply education but also help their students develop moral values to become better citizens after they graduate. I am an XLC student. … Continued
Over 200 Christian leaders from across India, among them philosophers, theologians, former officials, academics and lawyers, have condemned the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, and the State violence unleashed on youth and civil society activists protesting the legislation’s targeting of … Continued
Greetings of Peace! We have been truly blessed this year. On 19 February, Fr General Arturo Sosa announced the four universal apostolic preferences (UAPs) that will orient and energise the life and mission of the Society of Jesus in the … Continued
The Vietnamese Jesuit Province celebrated the ordination to the priesthood of nine Jesuit deacons on December 3 at St Joseph Jesuit Scholasticate in Ho Chi Minh City by Most Rev Joseph Dang Duc Ngan, Bishop of Da Nang diocese. The … Continued
Instituto São João de Brito (ISJB), the Jesuit teacher education institute in Timor-Leste, celebrated a momentous occasion on November 30 with the completion of studies (judicium) of the teacher-trainees who began their education at the inception of ISJB in 2016. … Continued
The third module of the second intake of the Leadership Development Programme (LDP) gathered some 30 participants from various parts of Asia for a week of learning, formation and exchange of ideas in the Jesuit mission. It was held at … Continued