Micronesia

Fighting human trafficking

Submitted on May 26, 2013 - 12:37 pm

Jesuits in Southeast Asia will be taking a more active role in the fight against human trafficking, which Pope Francis recently called "a despicable activity, a disgrace for our societies, which describe themselves as civilized".

Jesuits in Micronesia

Submitted on December 19, 2012 - 12:26 pm

The Jesuits of the New York Province have produced a six-part video series that recounts their history of service to the people of Micronesia and introduces some of the Jesuit works and apostolates there.

The Jesuits primarily serve in the parishes and schools in the states of Yap and Chuuk. Micronesia is part of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific.

Structures for mission

Submitted on November 21, 2012 - 9:16 am

In September, the six Conference Presidents gathered in Rome for their annual meeting with Fr General. Although we came from very different parts of the world, we could experience much in common in our roles of service to the Society’s global mission.

I do believe, but help the little faith I have

Submitted on November 4, 2012 - 9:58 pm

In a letter to Major Superiors on the occasion of the launch of the Year of Faith, Fr General Adolfo Nicolás, superior general of the Society of Jesus, welcomed the Holy Father’s call “to focus more explicitly on the gift of faith, and the witness and service we give to it”.

Fr General on New Evangelisation

Submitted on November 4, 2012 - 9:35 pm

In his invention at the 25^th Synod of Bishops, Fr General Adolfo Nicolás, superior general of the Society of Jesus, told the Synod that “a New Evangelisation has to learn something from the First Evangelisation, from the things we did well and from the mistakes we committed as well as the insufficiencies we suffered in our desire to communicate the Gospel”.

Reflections on Jesuit Identity

Submitted on September 16, 2012 - 8:43 pm

At the International Colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education in Boston, Fr Danny Huang SJ, Regional Assistant for Asia Pacific, posed 10 points of reflection from the Procurates, that he said would be useful to discuss in Jesuit schools, Provinces and Regions.

1. Apostolic instruments
Do we understand ourselves and function as apostolic missions? How?

Micronesian school moves into its own campus

Submitted on September 16, 2012 - 8:03 pm

After a year in borrowed space at St Mary’s Parish and grammar school, Yap Catholic High School (YCHS) opened its new campus with a celebratory mass on August 19. About 300 people made their way to Lamar for the official opening celebration.

Father John Hagileiram SJ, Regional Superior of the Jesuits in Micronesia, presided at a Mass of Thanksgiving. "This is a historic day," he reminded the congregation, "on which we should all be proud of what we have achieved together with God's help."

Reflecting on governance arrangements

Submitted on August 18, 2012 - 11:37 pm

Typhoon Vicente reached Hurricane Signal 10 overhead as the half yearly Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) Major Superiors’ assembly continued calmly indoors in Macau’s Colégio Mateus Ricci in the last week of July. From the meeting room window, the bright umbrellas of some of Macau’s annual 30 million visitors could be seen at the Ruins of St Paul, a reminder of the 500-year Jesuit history integral to the identity of the former Portuguese colony that is now a Special Administrative Region of China.

Long Experiment in Micronesia

Submitted on August 18, 2012 - 11:00 pm

A Jesuit novice from the United States reflects on the five months he spent in full-time apostolic work in Micronesia, in the Long Experiment that is but one of a series of experiments in which Jesuits participate during their formation. Tim Casey nSJ taught at Yap Catholic High School in Micronesia.