Hong Kong Sunday Examiner, Sunday 5 July 2009. MACAU (SE): “We can compare the approach taken to missionary work by the Jesuit missionary to China, Father Matteo Ricci, with that of St. Paul,” Father Gianni Criveller told a forum at the Macau Ricci Institute on the evening of May 11 to mark the 399th anniversary of the death of the remarkable Jesuit.
On May 18, The Beijing Center (TBC) announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Fr Roberto Ribeiro (CHN) as the new director of TBC and president of TBC, Inc. as of October 1, 2009. His appointment is for three years.
The mission of the International Center for the Promotion of Partner Based Learning is to promote cross cultural and interdisciplinary cooperation leading to education of the whole person in the field of higher education. The focus is on cooperation between those taught and those teaching with a view to finding more effective educational models. Particular interest is in the part played in such education by former students.
The Macau Ricci Institute, directed by the Jesuits in Macau, organized a forum in which the various stages of Ricci’s life are remembered, from his arrival in China until his entrance into Peking, where he lived from 1583 to 1610. Father Gianni Criveller, PIME expert on Chinese issues, participated in the forum, which was directed by Fr Artur Wardega, Director of the Macau Institute. The forum underlined some lesser known aspects of the Italian missionary. The day concluded with a concert. (Source: Electronic News Service SJ, June 9, 2009)
An abridged version of a documentary on 17th century Jesuit Missionary Adam Schall von Bell, produced by Taipei’s Kuangchi Program Service and Nanjing’s Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation was broadcast three times by Central China TV (CCTV) on March 22 and 23. CCTV plans to broadcast the documentary again on its worldwide channel.
The Beijing Center now opens an 8-week summer Mandarin program, ChinaVoice. It offers four different levels of Chinese for beginning students to those at advanced level. During the program there will be one independent excursion to one of 15 cities in China, 4 guided field trips and 7-8 individual tours in Beijing.
The Beijing Center now opens an 8-week summer mandarin program, ChinaVoice.
It offers four different levels of Chinese for beginning students to those at advanced level. During the program there will be one independent excursion to one of 15 cities in China, 4 guided field trips and 7-8 individual tours in Beijing. Students will get a personal tutor as well as the option for a Chinese homestay or a Chinese roommate.
On January 26 the Chinese people celebrated New Year. In a video-editorial of eRenlai published on the web, Fr Benoît Vermander (CHN), Director of Ricci Institute in Taipei, declared that while it is always difficult to make predictions, he would venture three regarding China for the year of the Ox.
In Taipei, the Kuangchi Program Service and the Guanachi Cultural Group, the radio-TV production center and the publishing house of the Jesuits of Taiwan, celebrated 50 years of its service to evangelization. In half a century they have made a noteworthy contribution to social, cultural and religious education following the principles of truth, goodness and beauty.
A Symposium was hosted in Macau last November on Fr Tomás Pereira who died 300 years ago. Hosted by the Macau Ricci Institute, it was entitled In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor: Tomás Pereira, the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China.