JCAP News

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.

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, formation, spirituality and international works, and a brief look forward to 2013.

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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 kilometres and contains 12,600 megalitres of water.

Water for all
In conjunction with World Water Day on March 22, the Reconciliation with Creation taskforce in Asia Pacific conference has called for Jesuits and collaborators to be more aware of our responsibility to the world that God created.  The need to focus on water is clear as 2013 has also been declared by the United Nations as the Year of Water Cooperation.

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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.  "Promotio Iustitiae no.110" provides an introduction to the networks, a theological grounding for Ignatian advocacy, a possible model of collaboration, and position documents on each network, including objectives, and plans for future action.

JCAP Report – January 2013
If the JCAP major superiors needed a reminder of the extent of and differences in our Conference, the last two locations for our biannual meeting certainly provided that.   The island Republic of Palau, population 20,600, is a vastly different locale from that of our previous assembly held last July in Macau, a part of China, population over 1.4 billion.

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