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Looking forward to continue our fellowship and solidarity in the New Year to come.

The Sunday school teacher was telling the class about the armour of the Christian. She told of the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and added, "And Paul said we should carry a weapon which he says is the Word of God. Do you remember what he called the Word of god?"

There was no answer, so she added, "it's something very sharp, something that cuts."

"I know, I know!" one little few answered. "It's the axe of the Apostles!"

National Seminar

Fr. Poulus Mangai from Vidyajyoti, New Delhi invites the social apostolate coordinators of the Jesuit provinces in India to take part in the National seminar on "TWO DECADES OF NEW ECONOMIC POLICY - A VIEW FROM BELOW"

Date: February 17-18 2012

Venue: Vidya Jyoti College, New Delhi

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A Get Together of Movements, Action Groups and Activists organised by PSA.

Gandhamardan, 7-9 November: For the past one decade India has been facing some newer struggles especially from subaltern groups - from Muthanga & Chengara in Kerala to Nandigram in West Bengal; from Mundra in Gujarat to Teesta valley in Sikkim. The Central Indian states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have started reacting violently due to the negligence of the Federal Government. As a result there came to be 13 adivasi martyrs of Kalinga Nagar; 3 adivasi martyrs of Maigan; the family of dalits lynched at Khairlanji, Tapassi Mallik; a teenaged girl who was raped and killed in Singur, Linga; the tribal leader of Narayanpatna who was killed while leading a protest march to the police station of Umbergaon fishing village, so on and so forth.

Aug. 2007-Oct.2011: over four years of dedicated service at JESA.

New Delhi: Hailing from the Jesuit Province of Kolkotta, Fr. Xavier built an extended national family of Jesuits and all those who share the vision and mission of Jesuits at JESA/SAPI (Jesuits in Social Action / South Asian Peoples' Initiatives). He is now moving on to still a larger world to build a global family.

Second phase of this workshop in January 2012.

Sri Lanka, 14-15 November: A workshop on advocacy organized by the social action team (JESA) was held at Fatima retreat house, Lewella.17 staff members from CPPHR, CSC, JSC, Shanti and Satyodaya and the heads of the social centres participated in the workshop. Fr. Baylon Perera in his key note address on lay collaboration said that the laities have special vocation through the Jesuit Social Centres (JSC) by merging their personal goals to the existing goals of the Organisation.

Sannybhai’s schedule of visits to the Provinces.

New Delhi: A man of the field as he calls himself, Stanny Jebamalai more popularly known as Sannybhai is all set and ready to start a series of visits to the Provinces as he takes charge as JESA Secretary. He said, “This is as part of the learning process and working out ways to synergize.”

Memorandum of Appeal submitted to NHRC, JHRC, CM, HM.

New Delhi, 22 November: The candlelight protest and demonstration against the gruesome killing of Sr. Valsa John held at India Gate, New Delhi, brought many civil societies, organizations and movements together under the banner of Delhi Solidarity Group (DSG). This Action of Protest came as a result of condolence meeting followed by Planning for Action organized at Indian Social Institute (ISI) earlier on the November 18, 2011.

Thomas P. Greene, SJ, Sec. for Social and International Ministries.

Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple whom many consider one of the most innovative and creative thinkers of our time, recently wrote an article for the New York Times in which he described the various influences that led to Jobs’ success.

(An Emphasis on the need to promote lay leadership through SAPI)

Jamshedpur, 19-20 November: Sannybhai, the new JESA Secretary along with Joe Surin, PCF, and Mike T. Raj, the Provincial met the Social Action Commission Members at Loyola Niwas, to take stock of various activities in the Social Apostolate Centres.

Theme: New Frontiers: Our Common Response.

Chennai, 13-15 October: The 18^th JESA (Jesuits in Social Action) Convention was held at the historical Dhyana Ashram, Chennai, a place where St. Francis Xavier and Robert De Nobili once spent their restful time. Coordinators for Social Action (CSA) with their team representing 20 Jesuits Social Centres in Nepal, Sri Lanka and India participated in this three-day gathering of the Jesuits and Collaborators. Total number of participants was 100.

A three day National workshop on People’s governance, State accountability and Movement mechanism was organized in New Delhi by South Asian Peoples’ Initiatives (SAPI) in collaboration with Indian Social Institute, New Delhi and Delhi Forum (DF). The workshop was designed to build an understanding of the dynamics of the people’s movements, the situations affecting these and to formulate and strategise a collective course of action. The framework for the workshop was contextualised in the socio-political significance of voices of the people captured in the popular slogans reflecting their aspirations, experiences and understanding on Governance and Accountability issues related to their struggles, the movement dynamics and strategic mechanism devised by people to engage with government.

Fr. Edward Mudavassery SJ, Provincial of South Asia has appointed Fr. Stanislaus Jebamalai SJ, of Gujarat Province as the next Assistancy Secretary for JESA. Presently Fr. Stanny, popularly known as Sannybhai in Gujarat, is the founder and managing trustee of SHAKTI Trust, Songadh, Gujarat. We wish sannybhai "ALL THE BEST" in this important and a challenging ministry in South Asia. He will take over as the next JESA Secretary from Xavier Jeyaraj, during the forthcoming JESA Convention in Chennai in October.