India

A Croatian Jesuit who crossed half the world to serve the poorest communities of Bengal, Fr Ante Gabrić spent five extraordinary decades building up the Church in the Sundarbans – one school, one clinic, one family at a time. His cause for beatification is now before the Church...

On the morning of 24 March 1964, Fr Herman Rasschaert celebrated Mass in his remote parish of Kutungia, 240 kilometres from Ranchi on the Orissa border. He knew what was happening in nearby Gerda village. Word had spread: a frenzied mob was attacking Muslims trapped...

What began as a simple encounter between urban students and forgotten hamlets has evolved into a profound Jesuit mission of accompaniment. For eight years, St. Xavier’s University Kolkata has answered the Society of Jesus’ call to “walk with the excluded” through its transformative...

Father Francis Pudhicherry, SJ, has been appointed Provincial of the Gujarat Province by Father General Arturo Sosa, SJ. Since 2021, he has been rector of De Nobili College in Pune, where Jesuit scholastics study philosophy and theology. He also teaches spiritual theology...

Father Stany, as you wrap up your tenure as President of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia (JCSA) this October, what memories truly light up your soul? Gazing at today’s South Asian Jesuit family, which “small wins” or milestones bring you the deepest peace?

The Kohima Jesuit Province stands at a decisive moment in its history. In the far north-eastern corner of India, the Jesuit mission that began modestly in 1970 has grown into a vibrant apostolic presence. Rooted in more than fifty years of frontier mission across Northeast India, the Kohima...

When Belgian Jesuit missionaries arrived in Chotanagpur in 1869, they stepped into a landscape of systematic oppression. The Adivasi tribes – Munda, Oraon, Ho, Santhal, Kharia – lived on land rich with minerals yet were themselves stripped of dignity, resources, and hope...

The inauguration of St. Xavier’s College’s new building in Simdega represents far more than bricks, classrooms, and laboratories. It’s a declaration: Quality higher education belongs here. Your children deserve the same opportunities as youth in Ranchi, Delhi, or Mumbai...

When Jharna Spirituality Centre in Ranchi Province opened on 13 September 2008, it answered a deep longing. Thousands have since crossed its threshold seeking spiritual renewal – Jesuits primarily, but also priests, religious sisters and brothers, and laypeople...

In 1885, a 29-year-old Belgian Jesuit stepped off a train in Ranchi and into a landscape scarred by injustice. Fr Constant Lievens had travelled thousands of miles from his homeland, driven by a calling he couldn’t ignore. What he found in Chotanagpur shook him to his core...

Continuing his visit to the Calcutta Jesuit Province, Fr General Arturo Sosa visited the Raghabpur campus of the prestigious St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. Raghabpur was originally established to extend higher education to women and to respond to the growing need for inclusive learning spaces.

The higher education mission of the Calcutta Jesuit Province is not merely a record of institutions founded or degrees awarded; it is the unfolding of a distinctive intellectual, cultural, and spiritual vision that has shaped Bengal’s academic and moral imagination for nearly two centuries...