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Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific

Remembering the meaning of Christmas
In many Asian cities, Christmas means more lights and special offers in the stores. Cultural and commercial symbols get confused with truly Christian ones.  The meaning of the holy season is easily missed and is a great loss, for the claim that God entered our history in this way sets...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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Helping foreign migrants navigate Japanese law
The free legal services offered by the Jesuit Social Center in Tokyo in the last year has proven to be a boon to foreign migrants.  The centre already has 35 legal cases solved or awaiting resolution in its files. “More than half of all the Catholics in Japan are of other nationalities. Anyone...

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Australian Jesuit named Boston College Gasson Professor
Fr Christopher Willcock SJ, an award-winning Australian composer of music for churches and concert halls, has joined the Boston College community as the Thomas I Gasson SJ Professor for 2011-12. He is presently a member of the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne where he teaches courses in...

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Continuing to serve the poorest of the poor
Banteay Prieb, a training centre set up by Jesuit Service Cambodia for Cambodians maimed by the war or by landmines, celebrated its 20th anniversary on December 20, 2011.   The Centre of the Dove, as it is called in English, is located in a former military communication centre, prison and...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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Helping foreign migrants navigate Japanese law
The free legal services offered by the Jesuit Social Center in Tokyo in the last year has proven to be a boon to foreign migrants.  The centre already has 35 legal cases solved or awaiting resolution in its files. “More than half of all the Catholics in Japan are of other nationalities. Anyone...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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MAGIS MAS
The Jesuits in Malaysia and Singapore (MAS) held the first MAGIS programme for youth in the region in December 2011.  The MAGIS MAS programme draws its inspiration from the Ignatian term MAGIS which connotes striving to do more in order to render greater glory to God. The global MAGIS...

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Appointment of Director of EAPI
April 15, 2010. On the recommendation of the Board of Trustees of EAPI, the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific appoints Fr Arthur Leger SJ as the next director of the East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI), commencing June 01,  2010. Fr Leger succeeds Fr Jeyaraj Rasiah SJ, who leaves Manila on...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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Flood misery continues across Southeast Asia
An estimated 20 million people across Southeast Asia have been affected by flooding since June. Most are in Thailand, but typhoons struck the Philippines in October, and Laos was hit by cyclones in July and August.  About 1.8 million people in Cambodia and Vietnam are also suffering from the...

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JCAP Ministries

Mindanao: Xavier U donates land for resettlement, JRS launches appeal
Xavier University has started to help resettle survivors of Tropical Storm Washi. Thousands were rendered homeless by the flash floods that wiped out parts of Cagayan de Oro City in Southern Philippines on December 16 and 17, 2011.  

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EAPI – 50 years and forging ahead
The EAPI in Manila celebrated its 50 years since it became known as the East Asian Pastoral Institute in 1961. It was set up in 1955 by Fr. Joannes B. Hofinger SJ as the Institute of Missionary Apologetics.  However, the name was changed in 1961 as Fr José Maria Calle SJ, the last of the EAPI...

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Helping foreign migrants navigate Japanese law
The free legal services offered by the Jesuit Social Center in Tokyo in the last year has proven to be a boon to foreign migrants.  The centre already has 35 legal cases solved or awaiting resolution in its files. “More than half of all the Catholics in Japan are of other nationalities. Anyone...

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Promoting reconciliation with creation
How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from...

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Applications open for 2012 EATEP
The East Asia Theological Encounter Programme (EATEP) in 2012 will be held from April 16 to May 14.   The programme, which is in its seventh year, will be held at Seven Fountains, the Jesuit spirituality centre in Chiangmai, Thailand.

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Supporting Timor Leste
More than 200 people from St Canice’s Parish in Sydney turned out for this year’s annual dinner to raise money for people in Timor Leste.Special guests at this year’s celebration at Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club on October 29 were East Timorese scholastics Dino Sarmento and João dos Santos, who are...

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Youth learn to grow crops sustainably
Abaca, coffee and rubber are three very different crops that can make a difference to the indigenous communities in Mindanao – both economically and socially.In October, 30 youth from Upper Pulangi, Bukidnon in northern Mindanao spent 10 days learning about these crops, how to produce them and how...

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Proclaiming the Gospel from the market place
Catholics should be using cinema and culture to dialogue with other faiths, and we should be doing so in the market place, said President of SIGNIS World Augustine Loorthusamy in his keynote address at the SIGNIS Asia Assembly in Nepal in October.

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Spirituality in campus life
Spirituality is a vital part of campus life at Kolese De Britto in Jogjakarta, and the health of the spiritual life of the Kolese De Britto family is the main focus of its Campus Ministry.  So, when Fr Robert Rimmin SJ was assigned to work in the Campus Ministry in August, he asked himself “...

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Other Jesuit News

Fr General: Evangelisation-through-dialogue
Father General Adolfo Nicolás SJ speaks to The Way about Interreligious Dialogue: The Experience of some Pioneer Jesuits in Asia. Before becoming Superior General of the Jesuits in 2008, Adolfo Nicolás worked for many years in Asia. Here he draws on that experience to argue for the contemporary...

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Praying with Refugees from Somalia
On October 5, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI launched an appeal to the international community to help people suffering famine in the Horn of Africa.  During his general audience that morning, the Holy Father said, "I renew my heartfelt appeal to the international community to continue its commitment...

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Magis and Ecology
Magis is a pastoral experience organized by the Society of Jesus and other religious organisations for the days leading up to World Youth Day (WYD) celebrations, which this year were from 16 to 21 August in Madrid, Spain.

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Fresh approach to formation
The annual camp of a new Catholic youth movement run by Jesuits in Bangladesh is providing a fresh approach to youth formation that many participants say is both fascinating and useful.Around 70 students from across the country attended the MAGIS (Marching and Growing in Solidarity) Bangla camp...

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Loyola Chicago offers Vietnam nursing programme
The Loyola University Chicago School of Nursing has partnered with Yersin University School of Nursing in Dalat and the Lam Dong Province Nursing Association in a unique Masters of Science in Nursing programme.  Six Vietnamese teachers of nursing are enrolled in the two and a half year...

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