Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific

23 Jul 2013

Making new friends, and opening up new horizons

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Xavier Catholic College Hervey Bay student Julie-Anne Doan’s face lights up as she talks about the experience of meeting and chatting with the young people she’s encountered on the Timor-Leste Immersion Program.

“We’ve been looking at the history, and seeing how much they’ve gone through,” she says. “Yet they’re able to smile and to give to others just as if we’re part of the family. I don’t really want to leave to be honest.”

22 Jul 2013

Loyola School of Theology has new president

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Fr Jose Quilongquilong SJ was inaugurated as President of Loyola School of Theology (LST) in the Philippines on July 5. He takes over from Fr Jose Mario C Francisco SJ who was LST president for seven years.

8 Jul 2013

Centre for young adults opens in Sydney

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Young adults will be able to continue their Ignatian formation as they enter university life with the opening of Jesuit House in Sydney. In this letter to the Province, Australian Provincial Fr Steve Curtin SJ says the house, part of The Cardoner Project, now has a community of young men living there and has begun functioning as a venue for formation and prayer, as well as socialising.

21 Jun 2013

A Jesuit school for Cambodia

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Father General Adolfo Nicolás SJ has given his permission for the establishment of an education project in Cambodia. The school, as proposed in the report Discerning a Major Focus for our Education Project in Cambodia, comprises a medium sized secondary school with four classes in each grade and a small primary school with two classes in each grade. It will include a teacher training resource centre (which will also function as a community learning centre) and a hostel for trainee teachers.

21 Jun 2013

JCAP Education on the move

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There was much delight at the recent JCAP Education meeting in two significant developments.

Fr Christopher Gleeson SJ, JCAP Education Secretary and meeting chairman, shared that the group learnt a good deal from inaugural Principal, Fr Plinio, about the beginning in January of the new school in Timor-Leste, Colégio de Santo Inácio de Loiola.

18 Jun 2013

Ignatian themes in Pope’s address to students

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Pope Francis drew on some Ignatian themes in his prepared text for his meeting with students from Jesuit schools on June 7. His message was as much to Jesuit educators as to the students.

The Pope spoke of interior freedom, of being men (and women) with and for others, of finding God in our daily life. He wrote: “learn to read the signs of God in your life. He always speaks to us, also through the events of our time and of our everyday existence. It is up to us to listen to him.”

16 Jun 2013

Rising to the challenge

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As if beginning a school literally from ground up were not challenge enough, the team responsible for the Jesuit educational institute in Timor-Leste is having to race through its first year of school and begin its second academic year some two months earlier than anticipated.

25 May 2013

First Jesuit university in India

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The first Jesuit private university in India will open its doors next year. It will be named after St Francis Xavier, and will be built in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, where the Jesuits already run a business management institute, the Xavier Institute of Management. The Orissa state Legislative Assembly recently gave the go-ahead to the project, which was first proposed four years ago.

28 Apr 2013

JCAP annual report 2013

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The Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific has published its 2013 annual report, Jesuits in Asia Pacific 2013.

The document offers Jesuits, collaborators and friends a report by Conference President Fr Mark Raper SJ on 2012, articles on four key areas for the Conference that year – education, formation, spirituality and international works, and a brief look forward to 2013.