eNews Bulletin January 2012
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Jesuits return school to Dili dioceseJesuits serving in Timor Leste have returned a secondary school they set up and managed for 18 years to the diocese of Dili. Colégio de São José was transferred on December 14 with a mass led by Vicar General Father Apolinario Aparicio Guterres. During his homily, Fr Guterres thanked the Society for developing both the Church and the nation through the school and praised the Jesuits for teaching young people to be qualified and disciplined individuals. (Source: UCAN). Read more |
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MAGIS MAS
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Continuing to serve the poorest of the poor
The Centre of the Dove, as it is called in English, is located in a former military communication centre, prison and Khmer Rouge killing field. But the centre has transformed the former place of fighting and killing into a place for peace, justice and reconciliation. Read more |
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Mindanao: Xavier U donates land for resettlement, JRS launches appeal
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Helping foreign migrants navigate Japanese law
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Promoting reconciliation with creation
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JCAP Upcoming Events January - March 2012
The complete JCAP calendar can be viewed here. |
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. 
Banteay
Prieb, a training centre set up by Jesuit Refugee Service for
Cambodians maimed by the war or by landmines, celebrated its 20th
anniversary on December 20, 2011.
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. 
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. 
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 December 19 to 30, 2011.