Community-building, immersion, daily Masses, city tour, academic lectures, periods of reflection, food expeditions, museum visits, efficient train rides, Christmas festivities and lasting friendships – these are just some of the tags that can summarise the 10-day Scholastics and Brothers Circle … Continued
As we turn the calendar to 2019, we take a look back on a few of the most significant moments in the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific in 2018. January 21 to 25Bendum, Bukidnon, Philippines The Reconciliation with Creation … Continued
Fr William “Bill” McGarry SJ, President of the Jesuit Conference of East Asia from 1980 to 1986, died at a hospital in Manila on December 29 at the age of 90. According to an obituary published by the Philippine Province, … Continued
Eleven regents from the Myanmar Mission, with one lay volunteer from Singapore, participated in a workshop on Ignatian Pedagogy from December 27 to 30. The workshop was held at the newly opened Myanmar Leadership Institute in Yangon and conducted by … Continued
Dear friends and mission partners, Greetings of Peace. It is striking to note that the first ones to receive with great joy the news of the birth of Jesus are the shepherds, not the rich and powerful. The shepherds are … Continued
Superior General of the Society of Jesus Fr Arturo Sosa spent the first two weeks of December visiting the Vietnamese Province and the Philippine Province. It was his second trip to Asia Pacific; in 2017 he went to Cambodia, Indonesia … Continued
Did you know that Asia Pacific is home to around 40 percent of the world’s stateless people? A big part of that population comes from the nearly a million Rohingyas who have been displaced from Myanmar since the latest round … Continued
(Last in a four-part series on the tertians of the 2018-2019 Asia Pacific Tertianship programme) From all over the world, eight Jesuits have gathered in the Philippines for the Asia Pacific Tertianship from September 2018 to March 2019. Please pray … Continued
If Ignatius were to go to Asia Pacific today, where would he go? To what and to whom would he dedicate his time? This year’s meeting of the conference Extended Consult on November 21 and 22 in Manila was remarkably … Continued
What better way to practice cura personalis than to use an approach to Growth Coaching that is based on ‘listening to the self, to others, to creation and to God? This was the premise of the second workshop on Ignatian … Continued