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Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific

Making choices the Ignatian way

Soon we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus, the end of Easter time. “Go, make disciples of all nations”, Jesus instructed after his resurrection, giving his followers a universal mission.

Schools collaborate and deepen relations around their river catchment

Since 2011, we have held during Water Week the annual Lane Cove River Catchment Day, a combined project of the schools of the Lane Cove river catchment team where whole group and small group activities are held based around local catchment issues. The Lane Cove river catchment is 95.4 square...

On Global Ignatian Advocacy Networks

The Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat has released "Promotio Iustitiae no.110", a document dedicated to the Global Ignatian Advocacy Networks, which are centred on five areas – Ecology, Right to Education, Management of Natural Resources and Minerals, Migration, and Peace and Human Rights....

JCAP Provinces and Regions

Redfern Jarjum College officially opens

Redfern Jarjum College, a Jesuit primary school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, was officially opened on April 13, with a number of dignitaries giving the school and its students their blessing.

Planting trees at the Killing Fields

On January 27, Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims, both foreigners and Khmer, gathered together at Choeung Ek, otherwise known as the Killing Fields of Cambodia, to remember and pray for the thousands of innocent Cambodians who were executed there under the Khmer Rouge regime. The remembrance...

Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian SJ – in memoriam

Bishop Jin of Shanghai, a prominent and controversial figure in the Church of China, died on April 27 aged 96 following a long struggle against pancreatic cancer. His prominence was reflected in the title of his biography Le Pape Jaune (the Yellow Pope), written by French journalist Dorian...

Cardoner Week

“To be man of the Spiritual Exercises and of the Constitutions” is the grace asked by those participating in the Cardoner Week, a new on-going formation programme in the Indonesian Province. The Province members of batches 1963 to 1999 (the year they joined the Society of Jesus) participate in this...

Structures for mission

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.

Encounters in Myanmar

Korean Scholastic Benedict Kim Kundong SJ shares his encounters with people and places in a trip he made around Myanmar, after his regency in Yangon.

Structures for mission

Jesuits in Micronesia

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. ...

Encounters in Myanmar

Korean Scholastic Benedict Kim Kundong SJ shares his encounters with people and places in a trip he made around Myanmar, after his regency in Yangon.

Philippine Provincial

Father Antonio Moreno has been appointed Provincial of the Philippine Province (PHI). Fr Antonio is at present Superior and President of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City, Philippines. Fr Antonio takes over from Fr Jose (Jojo) Cecilio Magadia, who has been appointed General...

Helping ethnic minority children get an education

This year, 167 children, many from ethnic minority tribes in the hills of northern Thailand, will get help with their education costs from the Seven Fountains Scholarship Programme.

Caring for prisoners in Dili

The Jesuits in Dili celebrate the Holy Eucharist at the prison in Becora, Dili on the second Sunday of every month. Prompted by Pope Francis’ celebration of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at a prison in Rome, Brother Noel Oliver SJ shares his impressions of the Jesuits’ prison ministry in Dili...

Vietnam Province looks to the future

The 13 communities of the Vietnam Province recently gathered to reflect on and share about their current missions as well as their apostolic plans.

JCAP Ministries

JCAP annual report 2013

The Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific has published its 2013 annual report, Jesuits in Asia Pacific 2013. The document offers Jesuits, collaborators and friends a report by Conference President Fr Mark Raper SJ on 2012, articles on four key areas for the Conference that year - education...

JCAP annual report 2013

Redfern Jarjum College officially opens

JCAP annual report 2013

A similar dream

In June, a group of Jesuit scholastics and priests spent a week in a Islamic boarding school in East Java, as part of the Indonesian Province’s efforts against religious radicalism, one of three concerns the Province has made a priority. Scholastic Billy Aryo Nugroho SJ recounts his experience....

Caring for prisoners in Dili

Redfern Jarjum College officially opens

Media training Taiwan’s bishops

Bishops in Taiwan recently acknowledged the importance of communication skills by initiating a training workshop on dealing with the mass media. The three-day workshop entitled “How to Deal with the Media” was conducted by the Jesuit work, Kuangchi Program Service (KPS), in January, at the...

JCAP annual report 2013

Other Jesuit News

The Society and Pope Francis

Pope Francis is the first Jesuit Pope. In a statement issued on March 14, Father General Adolfo Nicolás SJ gave thanks to God for the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio SJ as the Pope, which he said “opens for the Church a path full of hope”. We republish here Fr General’s statement,...

Structures for mission

By deeds and words

From his very first words as Bishop of Rome, our new Pope Francis revealed a gracious respect for the religious belief, freedom of conscience and dignity of each person – values and behaviour so essential for Christians in Asia Pacific. His first blessing was a simple, modest acknowledgement...

Frederico Lombardi SJ named Communicator of the Year

The financial services company Allianz Group has named the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr Federico Lombardi SJ, as Communicator of the Year. The prize was awarded on April 18 during a meeting of the company's communications directors who meet once a year to analyse themes and strategies...

Deliberation for Social Action

Jesuits involved in Social Action in the South Asian Conference spent three days in March deliberating to find a framework for Social Action. The objectives of the deliberation were to analyse the present state of affairs of social action and identify its causes, recognise the challenges and...

The Ignatian Way

Two American Jesuits recently discussed the genius of the Spiritual Exercises in an interview with America magazine. Fr Roger Haight SJ and Fr James Martin SJ recently published books on the Exercises. Fr Haight's book, “Christian Spirituality for Seekers”, was published this summer,...