13/04/2020 • Easter Message

Dear Alumna, dear Alumnus, Easter is for Christians a time of both introspection and joy, introspection in the face of the suffering present in our world and joy in the hope of the resurrection. This year, Easter takes on a special colour for Christians, but also for those who surround and frequent them. Not so […]

09/04/2020 • Lieutenant Governor Cyrus Habib “soon” to be called Cyrus Habib, sj

The story of a man who drops out politics to enter the Jesuits After 8 years in politics, Cyrus Habib, Lieutenant Governor of Washington State, announce that he is not seeking reelection in order to join the Jesuit religious order. The “highest-ranking Iranian-American elected official”, having lost his eyesight at age 8 to a rare […]

08/04/2020 • Seven tips for communicating well from St. Ignatius

At a time when the epidemiological crisis we are going through obliges us to rethink our daily lives and forces us to adapt our communication, which can no longer be as warmly human as it once was, perhaps this is also an opportunity to reread Saint Ignatius and his precious advice, especially in terms of […]

07/04/2020 • The World Union of Jesuit Alumni pays tribute to Fr. Alex Bassili sj

Having learned the news of the death of Father Alexandre Bassili SJ, from the coronavirus, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at the age of 75, WUJA offers its most sincere condolences to the Collège Notre-Dame of Jamhour from whose ranks he came (class of 1964), for which he served from 1980 to 2009 as spiritual […]

05/02/2020 • Pedro Arrupe, 29 years later, still in our memories

Father Pedro Arrupe passed away on February 5, 1991. This day is always an occasion for us to say a few words about this man of unfailing wisdom and confidence. As Pope Francis made a historic visit to Japan last year, he did not fail to pay homage to the 28th Superior of the Society […]

17/01/2020 • “Maior Dei Vis Vobiscum!”

Or when the famous Jesuit motto: “Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam” (for a greater glory of God), often diminished in AMDG, is reviewed under the Star Wars slant. Indeed, the most cinema lovers among us do not ignore the fresh output of the 9th intergalactic saga opus (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), that fell in […]

25/12/2019 • Merry Christmas!

Dear Alumna, dear Alumnus, Christmas is for us Christians, but also for other people, an occasion of great rejoicing and deep hope. We have a joyful heart to see the child in the manger in Bethlehem. And for us adults, we recall memories of our own childhood, when we watched in wonder the figures […]

30/07/2019 • On July 31, 1973, a feast of Saint Ignatius unlike any other…

Dear Jesuit Alumni, dear Friends, As we celebrate today, the feast of the founder of the Jesuits Ignatius of Loyola, let me bring you back in time. The 31st of July 1973 was no ordinary feast of Saint-Ignatius for the Society of Jesus, but no one at that time could imagine that the two events […]

17/05/2019 • The College of Gdynia in Poland celebrates its 25 year anniversary

Magdalena Myszk, alumna of the High School of Gdynia, testifies for us about her time spent therein, a Jesuit school that is celebrating, this year, its 25th anniversary. Although its Jesuit priests were killed under the Second World War and its doors shut during the communist era, this high school of the little port town […]

07/04/2019 • Address of Fr. General to Jesuit Alumni of Bandra (India)

A month ago, Father Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, spoke to Jesuit school and college elders in Bandra, a predominantly Catholic suburb of the Bombay metropolitan area. As part of an Indian tour, the Superior General of the Jesuits stood up in front of an audience made of alumni from the […]

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.