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On August, 17th 2013, the World Union of Jesuit Alumni held its General Assembly in Medellin (Colombia) and elected its new Council. The new Executive Committee counts the following members: Alain Deneef, Belgium (President), Sina Buraimoh-Ademuyewo, Nigeria (Vice-President), Carlos Gianicolo, Argentina (Secretary) and Ronald D’Costa, India (Treasurer). The Jesuit Councillor remains Fr. William Currie S.J.,…
200th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus
Expelled from several countries in the second half of the eighteenth century, they had been suppressed in the whole world in 1773. During the suppression and after the restoration, the Jesuits have shown tremendous resilience, first through surviving in different places, especially in Russia, then reorganizing themselves as of 1814 with surprising dynamics, made of…
“Form men and women for others” – 50 years of a historical discourse of Fr. Pedro Arrupe SJ
On Saturday 27 May 2023, a hundred Jesuit alumni from Spain and all over Europe met at the San José School in Valencia. The meeting was organised by the Spanish Federation of Jesuit Alumni and the European Confederation (ECJA), with the support of the World Union (WUJA). The event celebrated the 50th anniversary of the…
… the product of war
While wishing his best for the year 2018, His Holiness pope Francis has sent to the press and the diplomacy a postcard characterized both by simplicity and impact that it stirs up when you stare at it. Illustrated by a Japanese kid carrying his little brother’s dead body on his back after the awful 1945…
Next WUJA Congress to be celebrated in Barcelona in 2021
On June 28th 2017, I wrote to you from Cleveland: “Today we wake up with a new dream, with a new project”. That day in Cleveland, the Council of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA) chose our Association to hold in Barcelona the World Congress of 2021. At that time, and with all our…
WUJA has a new website
We are very glad to welcome you on our new website. With a revamped style and a mobile-friendly design, this is the richest source of information about the Jesuit Alumni worldwide movement. Under the impetus of its president Alain Deneef, WUJA wanted to build a stronger presence on the Internet in order to inform…