Jesuit Bishop in Cambodia visits Jesuits in Japan
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The Jesuit Bishop in Cambodia, Fr Enrique Figaredo (CAS), or “Kike” as he is familiarly called, told the Fathers of the District about recent Jesuit work in Cambodia when he addressed them at their February meeting. After the meeting, Fr Figaredo visited Hiroshima accompanied by Frs Cangas and Lee.
Jesuits have been working in Cambodia since 1980, above all in the refugee camps in Thailand following the Pol Pot reign of terror and during the ongoing civil conflict. Fr Figaredo himself volunteered to go there from Spain for three years of regency in 1985.
She sat quietly at the corner bench. The crowd was pressing in that small omise (a videoke snack bar which draws memories from times past when entertainers/ talents came in droves to almost all corners of Japan to earn a living, in an illusive quest for a dream, most of which turned to a nightmare). But, these are different times. The omise was not for “happy hour”, rather to break the sad news that not much of control is being gained over the nuclear reactors affected by the tsunami.
Fr John Wataru Uekuri (JPN) shares about his work: “I am fully involved in retreat guidance, and I do this job mainly using the method of Sadhana retreats composed by the late Fr Anthony de Mello.”