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‘Don’t forget us’ says Syrian Jesuit

November 28, 2014

Bishop Antoine Audo SJ is the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo and president of Caritas Syria. Recently two of his close friends, both bishops, have been kidnapped and disappeared. He’s in...

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Do they know it’s Christmas in Maban?

November 28, 2014

John K. Guiney SJ, director of the Mission Office, has returned from South Sudan with a grim question: ‘Do they know it’s Christmas in Maban, South Sudan?’: “Christmas is coming...

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Rumbek’s distress

November 14, 2014

Richard O’Dwyer SJ, Director of MAJIS (Multi-educational and Agricultural Jesuit Institute of South Sudan), sent IJN a sad report in October: “I am attaching some recent reflections on South Sudan....

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Help for East Africa

November 14, 2014

John K.Guiney, Director of the Mission Office, left Dublin on 4 October to visit the East Africa Province and confer with the outgoing Provincial, Fr. Orobator, and the incoming Provincial,...

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Fr Browne on the world stage

November 14, 2014

Frank Browne, A Life Through the Lens, a new book published by Yale University Press on the Jesuit photographer Fr. Browne and an exhibition of the same title featuring almost...

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Pope declares John Sullivan Venerable

November 14, 2014

Pope Francis has declared Fr John Sullivan SJ (1861-1933), an Irish Jesuit priest with a reputation for saintliness and healing, Venerable. The Pope signed the official decree recognising the heroic...

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Lourdes: “The best experience”

October 31, 2014

Before the Belvedere party left Dublin for Lourdes, Cormac Devilly, a 6th year student, was commissioned to write about the experience. Here are his reflections: “When I was given this...

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Remembering the war dead

October 31, 2014

At September’s end a number of Jesuits along with students and staff of Clongowes College, visited Flanders and the Somme. There they commemorated the contribution of former Clongowes’ students and...

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Fr Browne in Farmleigh

October 31, 2014

Yale University Press is to publish a major work on Jesuit photographer Fr Browne. Frank Browne, A Life Through the Lens will be launched Sat 1 November in Farmleigh Gallery,...

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Fighting for freedom

October 31, 2014

The title theme of the latest issue of Studies (Autumn 2014) is ‘Religious freedom in the 21st century’, but matters relating to Ireland’s political and cultural freedom in the early...

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