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May 26, 2009 |
Lights in the Darkness, an article in Company’s Winter 2008/09 issue that excerpts Fr. Gary Smith SJ’s book They Come Back Singing, won a national award from the Pontifical Mission Societies. The article won first place for “best promotion of world mission news by a Catholic magazine” in the 2009 Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara journalism competition.
The award will be presented by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith on Thursday, May 28, at the Catholic Media Convention in Anaheim, California. To read the article on line, visit www.companymagazine.org/v262/lights-in-darkness.html.
The Spring 2009 issue of Jesuitas Magazine, the magazine for the Society of Jesus in Spain, is its 100th issue. The quarterly publication was established in its current form in 1984. In the Spring issue, Fr. General Adolfo Nicolas SJ writes, “The 100 volumes of Jesuitas magazine open us to today and to the immediate future with that renewed vigor and zeal to which we are invited by the 35th General Congregation.”
The magazine is on line at www.jesuitas.es. [SJ Online Information Service]
Jesuit Volunteer Ben Beehner has created a video documenting his housemate’s experience as a volunteer for JVC Northwest in Seattle. The video can be viewed below or at www.jvcnorthwest.org/volunteers-stories.php.
Fr. Robert Keane SJ, a chaplain in the U.S. Navy, was recently promoted to the rank of captain. Keane is director of training at the Naval Chaplains School and is currently stationed in Okinawa, Japan. His vocation story can be read on the New England Province web site. [New England Province]
Find out how well you know the world of Jesuit higher education with this quiz at www.sporcle.com/games/jesuit_colleges.php.
After studying alternative energy and global climate change through St. John’s Jesuit’s Green Light Project, students at the Toledo high school started a program called Schools Lighting the Way. The program partners with a company that produces solar-powered flashlights: every time a flashlight is purchased, another is donated to someone in a Third World country who is not on an electrical grid.
Students designed a blue and gold flashlight with the St. John’s Jesuit crest that can be seen at www.schoolslightingtheway.com. The site provides information for high schools interested in joining the program. [St. John’s Jesuit Academy]
A group of Gonzaga University students arrived in Zambezi, Zambia, on May 19 to participate in Gonzaga’s Comprehensive Leadership Program. The students will spend their summer semester engaging in community development projects and will be blogging about their experiences at www.gonzagainzambezi.com.
The Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar celebrated its first commencement ceremony this May. Twenty-one students from twelve countries graduated with the Class of 2009; they entered the School of Foreign Service in 2005, when the university had just seven faculty members, seven courses in the first semester, and one classroom.
The ceremony was held at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and was attended by more than 500 friends, family, community members, and world leaders. [Georgetown University]
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