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…
The first ever crib set from India for the International Nativity Museum of Bethlehem, designed by artists of Kolkata based organization Church-Art, was unveiled here today by Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Bannerjee, at the St Xavier’s campus in the presence of Father J.Felix raj, SJ, Principal of St. Xavier’s College and other…
The Council of the World Union is the executive body of the Union. The General Assembly is the supreme body that repre-sents all the member associations and decides on their behalf. The General Assembly makes the major decisions including the election of the members of the Council and their positions (president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer). The…