Myanmar

Promoting reconciliation with creation

Submitted on January 16, 2012 - 3:08 pm

How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from December 19 to 30, 2011.

A wisdom story to encourage peace

Submitted on December 16, 2011 - 9:40 am

Much wisdom can be taught and learnt from stories, and a Jesuit scholastic hopes that his story, “A Fading Dream of an Orphan”, will make people reflect on and act against the destructive nature of war.

ACU online programme for refugees provides model for university educators

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 2:17 pm

An online programme that provides refugees on the Thai-Burma border with the opportunity to study for a university degree is the subject of a chapter in a new book called Ethnicity and Race.  The programme is the brainchild of the Refugee Tertiary Education Committee (RTEC), which was formed by Fr Michael Smith SJ from the Australian Province.

Listening to the forest

‘This forest is my life’, said a villager of Bogoran. In that remark he said everything that needed to be said. It confirmed all that the Jesuits studying philosophy in Indonesia had learned from a program concerned with the environment.

Educational outreach in Myanmar

Submitted on June 24, 2011 - 5:22 pm

The Sisters of Charity hosted  a summer educational programme at St. Gerosa’s Convent from March 15 to May 20, 2011.  Titus Tin Maung  recounts his experience of joining this workshop for the month of April.

Superior for Myanmar Mission

Submitted on March 7, 2011 - 5:13 pm

Fr. General has appointed the President of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific, Fr. Mark Raper, Major Superior of the Mission of Myanmar, for a term of three years. Fr. General entrusts Fr. Mark with the specific mission of planning and implementing apostolic and governance arrangements for Myanmar, in addition to the other concerns of a major superior. Fr. Mark assumed office January 24.

New Director of Campion Institute

Submitted on December 9, 2010 - 8:32 am

On the feast of St. Edmund Campion, the Korean Provincial, Fr John Sin Won-sik missioned Fr Simon Lee (KOR) to Myanmar. At present, Simon is secretary of the provincial in Seoul, so Fr John is sacrificing an important man in the Curia to come to be part of the Myanmar Mission. The Myanmar Mission welcomes Fr Simon and looks forward to his arrival toward the end of February 2011. He will be missioned to Campion Institute in May 2011.

Thailand: JRS responds to the influx of people fleeing violence in Burma

Submitted on December 8, 2010 - 4:15 pm

Bangkok, 11 November 2010 – An estimated 20,000 people have fled to Thailand since conflict broke out between government forces and the fifth brigade of the ethnic Karen rebel group, the DKBA. Fighting began on Monday morning 8 November in the southeastern border town of Myawaddy, less than a day after election polls opened in the military controlled region.

New novice director in Myanmar

Submitted on July 7, 2010 - 10:13 am

On June 21, Fr Irsan Rimawal (IDO) made his final vows at the Maria Della Strada Novitiate Chapel. He then took over Fr Wardi Saputra (IDO) as Novice Director for the Myanmar Mision.  Fr Wardi is now on sabbatical - two semesters of the New Directions program at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA.

Jesuit died in WWII, buried in Yangon

Submitted on July 6, 2010 - 6:37 pm

Fr. John Hayes was 36 years old when he died. He is buried in grave 7A. F. 24, Taukkyan War Cemetery, outside Yangon (formerly Rangoon) in Myanmar (Burma). He was the only Irish Jesuit chaplain to have died during the Second World War.

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