From July 28-30, Jesuit Theological College in Melbourne sponsored a conference on Evangelisation and Culture in a Jesuit Light at Australian Catholic University (ACU) in Melbourne. It was a major jubilee event for the Australian Province, co-sponsored by ACU and the Melbourne College of Divinity.
The meeting for this year of the national secretaries of Education will take place on August 4 -8 at the St. Ignatius College, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Those who have confirmed to come are Fr Gerry Healy (ASL), Fr Jim Croghan (MIC), Fr Yoshio Kajiyama (JPN), Fr Eric Velandria (PHI), Fr. Heru Hendarto (IDO), Fr Riyo Mursanto (JCEAO Secretary).
Some time in early 1994 Fr. Zuloaga called me long distance and asked if I could go to Cambodia and try to find some ways in which Fu Jen University might be able to be of help there. Cambodia was just starting on its way back from the “Killing Fields” era. The Jesuit Refugee Service personnel had moved back from the refugee camps in Thailand with the Khmer people who were returning to their war torn country. Cambodia had just been given status as a special “Mission” of the East Asia and Oceania Assistancy.
Adapted from the Occasional Address of Fr Michael Smith SJ
In the week after Easter two lecturers from Australian Catholic University, Mrs Ellen McBarron and Dr Robert Compton, made the long journey from Australia to the town of Mae Sot on the Thai-Burma border. On Wednesday, 19th April, they awarded undergraduate Diplomas in Business to 16 young Karen refugees and a Certificate in Business to another. The Award Ceremony was the culmination of a pilot project by ACU National which used a mixed mode of distance and online learning to meet the need for the higher education of Karen refugees who have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Burma.