29/07/2022 • Saint Ignatius Day – Words by Francisco Guarner

We are at the gates of the celebration of the feast of St. Ignatius, our patron as alumni of Jesuit schools and universities and of the Ignatian family and communities. Let us be grateful this year in which we commemorate the conversion of Ignatius of Loyola, that person who 500 years ago saw a new […]

25/07/2022 • Harnessing the Potential of Catholic Education Alumni to Improve Schools, Universities, and Society

Alumni have an important role to play in Catholic education and the promotion of integral human development. The Global Catholic Education project will aim to document good practices for engaging alumni. As a first instalment, for the Congress of the World Association of Jesuit Alumni in Barcelona, the team prepared a report entitled “Men and […]

17/07/2022 • Congress Resolutions

The Congress of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni meeting in Barcelona, Spain, at Saint Ignasi College, from 13 to 17 July 2022 Resolution #1 Recognises the richness of the contribution of the large group of young participants who wish to join this international network, which they make their own. Also recognises that there is […]

15/07/2022 • Farewell word of the outgoing president Alain Deneef

Dear Father General, dear alumni, dear friends, I would like to wish you all an excellent Congress and already thank with all my heart those who organised it in very difficult circumstances. My first world congress was held in Loyola-Bilbao in 1991. And I was half my age. Today, in 2022, this is my seventh […]

14/07/2022 • Speech of Fr. Sosa SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus

Jesuit alumni invited to be partners in the mission of reconciliation and justice in today’s world Speech of Arturo Sosa A., S.J. Superior General of the Society of Jesus Tenth Congress of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae of the Society of Jesus (WUJA) Barcelona, Spain 14 July 2022 Download here 2.14.0.0 2.14.0.0 […]

28/06/2022 • Barcelona Congress | Interview with Francisco Guarner

Fransisco Guarner is chairman of the organising committee of the 10th WUJA Congress, which will be held from 13th to 17th July in Barcelona. Francisco is an alumnus of College Sarriá San Ignacio, Barcelona and of ESADE University Business School and he’s active at all levels of the international movement of Jesuit Alumni (local association, […]

04/02/2022 • WUJA’S network is increasing… and diversifying

About two months ago, a special event took place in Brussels (Belgium): the inauguration gala of Jesuit Alumni of Brussels (JAB), a new group among the WUJA-galaxy. In spite of the difficulties due to the pandemic, more than fifty persons gathered in the evening of 2 December 2021 in the Château Sainte-Anne of Brussels. Those […]

26/01/2022 • Kick-off of our eco-pilgrimage in the framework of the World Alumni Congress

Dear friends, Throughout the first semester of 2022, WUJA (World Union of Jesuit Alumni) Youth Wing will undertake a virtual eco-pilgrimage to discuss the local and global challenges of climate change from an Ignatian perspective. The project is inspired by the EcoJesuit virtual pilgrimage, set up in preparation for COP26 last year. The WUJA´s […]

25/12/2021 • Christmas – Being born to our fragility

Dear Alumnæ and Alumni, 2021 will be remembered as a year of our frailties. No, the pandemic was not defeated this year. Yes, climate change has continued to take its toll on the four corners of the globe. We have always been fragile, but without always admitting it to ourselves. The child in the crib […]

15/09/2021 • Offer to Saint Ignatius at the occasion of the World Congress of Alumni Barcelona 2022

In 2021, the Society of Jesus celebrates the 500th anniversary of the wounding of Ignatius of Loyola at the siege of Pamplona. On this occasion, an Ignatian year has been decreed. WUJA will hold its World Congress in July 2022 in Barcelona. On July 30, the members of the organizing committee of the World Congress participated […]

Wuja in a nutshell

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WUJA – the World Union of Jesuit Alumni – brings together former pupils or students of Jesuit schools and universities in the entire world in order to build international relationships between these people, to contribute to the mission of the Society of Jesus and to promote the universal dynamic of Jesuit education.

For these purposes, WUJA organizes world meetings of Alumni around themes related to the commitment in the world and the society in the perspective of Christian and humanistic values, as practiced and promoted by the Society of Jesus in its educational work.

With the broad network of member associations, WUJA also launches or supports initiatives for solidarity or development such as the Pedro Arrupe World Association, particularly in the field of education or in partnership with Jesuits.

WUJA wants to develop its Community to federate and mobilize as many Alumni as possible who are sensitive to this dimension of their education and interested in this global dynamic, by reaching them among others via the Alumni associations in the Jesuit schools and universities worldwide and the national structures or local groups of Jesuit Alumni.