Fr Tony Herbert SJ was a special guest at the 2009 Indian Bazaar, hosted by St Ignatius' College, Riverview. He took some time out to describe to students what it was like to go on mission to Hazaribag in 1965.
Almost two thousand Jesuits now live and serve in East Asia and Oceania, the area Francis Xavier wandered around in 1549. Fr Mark Raper SJ, President of the Jesuit Conference on East Asia and Oceania, reflects on the qualities St Ignatius looked for when recruiting Jesuits to this region almost 500 years ago.
Fr Michael Eather arrived in India in 1959, armed with an education in philosophy. Yet after spending time in primary schools it was mathematics that became his passion. More specifically, it's teaching.