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June 13, 2024 / Latest News

Communication for a Renewed Jesuit Mission

Conference Communications Delegates’ Annual Meeting was held at Jesuit General Curia in Rome from 24 to 27 June 2024. A representative from each of the...
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August 10, 2022 / Latest News

Pax Lumina July 2022

This issue of PAX LUMINA is dedicated to the global economic imbalances and the poor.
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August 10, 2022 / Latest News

Pax Lunina May 2022

This issue of PAX LUMINA is dedicated to the war causes and consequences.
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August 10, 2022 / Latest News

Pax Lumina March 2022

This issue of PAX LUMINA is dedicated to the Universal Infamy.
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July 10, 2022 / Latest News

Remembering Fr Stan Swamy SJ

Jesuits, their collaborators and members belonging to various organisations marked the first death anniversary of the tribal rights activist Fr Stan Swamy SJ. (more…)
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May 19, 2022 / Latest News

Distribution of Educational Tabs to Students at St. Aloysius College, Harihar, Karnataka

Conference Development Office (CDO) of Jesuit Conference of India, in partnership with Karnataka Province, distributed educational tabs to students from vulnerable families in Harihar, Karnataka. The distribution of educational tabs took place at St. Aloysius College, Harihar on 9 May 2022.
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January 25, 2022 / Latest News

Blessing of the Center for Safeguarding and Human Formation

The Center for Safeguarding and Human Formation (CSHF) at De Nobili College, was blessed by Fr Jerome Stanislaus D’Souza, the President of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia (POSA, JCSA,) on 24th January. It was blessed after he celebrated the morning Mass at 6.50 am with the philosophy students.
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January 17, 2022 / Latest News

PAX LUMINA / January 2022

This issue of PAX LUMINA is dedicated to the Climate Change and the Poor.
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Who We Are

The Society of Jesus was founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola and his companions in 1540. With a global membership of more than 16,000 members, the Society operates through six Conferences spread across over 110 countries. Jesuits live and work in about 80 Provinces and Regions across the world. The Jesuit Conference of South Asia (JCSA), which has 22 Provinces, is one of the Conferences. It has its presence in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan.

The JCSA has over 400 schools (urban and rural), about 60 higher education institutions (including the prestigious XLRIs, Loyola College and St. Xavier’s College). It has a network of over 100 social work centres. It also has research centres (Indian Social Institute—Delhi and Bengaluru), initiatives such as the inter-religious dialogue, empowering the marginalised through livelihood promotion, skilling the youth, supporting refugees and the displaced, helpline for migrants, etc.

The Jesuits in South Asia are aligned with the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) of the Society of Jesus, and as a Conference it has  the following preferences:

a) Ensuring Quality Education;b) Promoting Ecology and Justice; c) Accompanying Youth; d) Fostering Peace and Reconciliation; and e) Promoting Renewal and Spirituality of Seeing God in All Things.

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What We Do

One Mission, Many Ministries: Responding to the Call of Christ the King

Jesuits are motivated by a deep, personal love of Jesus Christ and a “desire to imitate in some manner our Creator and Lord Jesus Christ … since he is the way which leads to life” (St Ignatius of Loyola). We seek to be “contemplatives in action” combining the service of faith with the promotion of justice, following the example of our founder, St Ignatius, who strove to “find God in all things.” We consider ourselves to be sent on mission with Jesus as companions consecrated for service under the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

Jesuits are best known in the fields of education (schools, colleges, universities, seminaries, theological faculties), intellectual research, and spiritual renewal. In South Asia ,Jesuits run schools, universities and parishes and engage in missionary work, social justice, inter-religious dialogue, and other ‘frontier’ ministries. Most importantly, we continue the tradition of providing retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises, the foundational work of St Ignatius.

The goal of the Jesuit mission is to be ever available for the greater universal good, desiring always the “magis”, that which is truly better “For the Greater Glory of God.” It is this availability for the Church’s universal mission that marks the Society of Jesus as an apostolic religious order.

The Universal Apostolic Preferences

There are four working fields to which the Society of Jesus will pay special attention and in which it will invest a significant portion of its various resources over the next few years.

SHOWING THE WAY TO GOD

WALKING WITH THE EXCLUDED

JOURNEYING WITH YOUTH

CARING FOR OUR COMMON HOME

Our Conference Secretariats

JEASA

JHEASA

SJES

Our Regional Collaborators [Provinces]

Andhra

Bombay

Calcutta

Chennai

Darjeeling

Delhi

Dumka-Raiganj

Goa

Gujarat

Hazaribagh

Jamshedpur

Karnataka

Kerala

Kohima

Madhya Pradesh

Madurai

Nepal

Patna

Pune

Ranchi

Sri Lanka