In Bukavu, South Kivu, between 1938 and 2013, the Alfajiri school totals 75 years of operation. Founded on December 7, 1938 by the fathers of the Missionaries of the Africa Apostolic Vicariate of Bukavu, the “College Saint Charles” became a Jesuit school in September 1941 and its management was entrusted to the Belgian Northern Province….
Saturday the 20th of July 2013 I am standing on the Piazza del Gesù in Rome before the eponymous church. A place that has changed over the centuries Rome is calm on this hot summer Saturday. The Italian exuberance seems to have come down for a moment. The broad facade of the church spans almost…
Communication nowadays is mostly digital, multidirectional, network oriented and structured as a spider web. It leans on a bouquet of interacting communication tools and channels. (1) As the Executive Committee of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni(ae) (WUJA) wished to enhance its overall communication and interaction with its base (2), it had to revisit both…
Many of us acting in their sj alumni associations do not see much further. They hardly know about their federation, continental confederation and the World Union. Their association is the centre and the rest of the world is around it. As a matter of fact, the Jesuit alumni/ae are everywhere on the planet, even on…
The Executive Committee of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni and Alumnae asked Michel Jadot to take the function of Chief Editor of the Jesuit Alumnus, the magazine of the World Union. Michel Jadot is Belgian and alumnus of Collège SaintMichel in Brussels where he graduated in 1970. He remained a member of the Board…
The Committee of the Eighth World Congress of the Jesuit Alumni organises the event that is to take place in the city of Medellín, Colombia, from 14 to 18th of August 2013. Several important meetings were held starting February 2012 to prepare the congress that is to take place at Colegio San Ignacio, Medellin. The…
From July 29 through August 2, 2012, Boston was the theatre of an extraordinary event in the Jesuit-inspired community worldwide. For the first time in history delegates of Jesuit secondary schools gathered for the International Colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education. Masterly organized by a group of Alumni of Boston College High (BC High, the secondary…
Hereunder follow the resolutions of the international colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education. From July 29 through August 2, 2012, for the first time in the history of the Society of Jesus, with the encouragement of Father General and under the guidance of the International Commission on the Apostolate of Jesuit Education, the leaders of our…
For a girl like me, who is entering the professional world and has now taken an active part in the complex and multifaceted reality of an hospital for a relatively short time, a meeting with professionals in the area, who have received the same training and who have now several years of experience behind them,…
We rejoice in our faith that God is always with us, as we again prepare to celebrate Jesus’ birth. I recently hiked to the top of Pulchowki, the highest point on our valley’s rim. A shrine to Shiva marks the summit. Shiva, for me, is simply another name for our ever-present God. This year has…