Dear friends, Easter is a season of courage and hope. In one Easter narrative, we are told about Mary Magdalene and the other Mary who both left the empty tomb quickly. They were “fearful yet overjoyed” upon realising that Jesus … Continued
Fr Min Kim SJ, Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific Coordinator for the Migration network, shares his realisations and the apostolic responses of Jesuit conferences around the world towards the situation of refugees and migrants from the meeting of the Global … Continued
Guided by the theme “Rowing into the Deep”, vocation promoters within the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) reflected on their mission as fishers of millennials called to join the Society of Jesus during their meeting in Yangon, Myanmar from … Continued
The Reconciliation with Creation (RwC) programme of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) is organising a series of Living Laudato si’ workshops in Mindanao, Philippines this year to contribute to the formation of apostolic communities of practice capable of … 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
2017 was a memorable year for the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific. From Fr General Arturo Sosa’s first visit to Asia Pacific to the inauguration of two Jesuit schools, a new JCAP President and the visit of Pope Francis 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
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
“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