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“Karibuni” is a Kiswahili word for welcome to all of you. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of you to the first electronic edition of SJ AFRICA NEWS. Read more (PDF) |
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Now the Congregation is over, awaiting the decrees, the immortalized words of GC 35; more so for their inspiration, but most of all for the emanating universal good deeds (Const #258) of each Jesuit and to an extent from our collaborators and from people of good will. Hopefully we shall see more deeds than words, which have a universal impact. More in PDF |
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Education is a major priority in Africa and yet, during the presentation of
Africa as an apostolic priority to the world wide delegates of the 35th
General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, one of the remarks from the
delegates that struck me most was “We did not know that Africa has so
few Jesuit schools”. We may have more social centres than schools, but it
is circumstantial. It is most likely that the difference is a manifestation of
the cry for structures of social transformation; no one, faithful to our
tradition, is happy with the status quo. But both, social centres and
schools, are in fact agents of change. And yet we have so few. Well, what
are the issues at stake here? More in PDF |
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Fr. Mario José Almeida, the new socius to the moderator of JESAM arrived in Nairobi on 19th December, 2007 and resides at AFRICAMA House. |
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In recent years, the Jesuits in Madagascar, as if hearing the instruction of Jesus “Give them something to eat yourselves” (Mt 14:16), are working hard to improve on the methods of food production. One Jesuit is known to have introduced SRI (intensive rice cultivation system), a non-traditional method of rice production which is slowly being accepted. At the current rate of consumption of 135 kilograms per person per annum, one begins to understand the supply and demand ratio. And that the sky seems to be the limit for innovation. Food for all. It is a challenge to the Malagasy nation as it is to the world leaders today; indeed to all of us, especially in this Assistancy. More in PDF |
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