“I consider this my mansion now,” said Noralyn Bangon as she received the keys to her new house. Her “mansion” is a 24-square-metre house built by Xavier University and its partners for families displaced by the war in Marawi City, … Continued
Banteay Prieb, the Jesuit vocational training centre in Cambodia, has opened a café managed and staffed by young people with intellectual disabilities. The café provides these young people with practical skills that can help earn a living. The café serves … Continued
It was a week during which the momentum of the global Jesuit education network was very much evident. For the education secretaries of the six Jesuit Conferences, the Secretary for Education and those working in the secretariat, the recent International … Continued
Xavier Learning Community (XLC) in Thailand, the youngest Jesuit school in the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific, is in talks with the oldest Jesuit university in the United States, Georgetown University, for a possible partnership. Dr Thomas Banchoff, Georgetown University’s … Continued
Three years after it opened, Instituto São João de Brito (ISJB) marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter with the inauguration of its very own campus. The new facilities will boost the teacher education institute’s capacity to train competent … Continued
Students in community schools and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in refugee camps in Myanmar are learning about peace building through workshops run by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). JRS launched the Peace Education Project in November last year to address … Continued
On May 3, Instituto São João de Brito held the blessing ceremony of its new campus. The milestone was the first of several this year for Projeto Educação Jesuíta, the Jesuit education project in Timor-Leste. In October, the new chapel, … Continued
Two important projects are underway for the education apostolate across the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific: the Ignatian Educator Volunteer Programme and the Connected Classrooms Project. These two undertakings were decided upon during the education secretaries meeting held from May 10 to … Continued
As 2018 began, a new Jesuit school in a rural part of northern Thailand approached the end of its first semester. Xavier Learning Community (XLC) had marked its official beginning on August 19, 2017 simply with a mass and dinner. … Continued
In response to ongoing protests in Nicaragua and the senseless killing of a Jesuit high school student there, the Jesuits of Central America, the Conference of Provincials of Latin America and the Jesuits of Canada and the United States have … Continued