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Jivan July -2014 Printer’s Name: Jerry Leo Sequeira S.J., Indian, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, P.B. 70, St. Xavier’s Road, Anand - 388 001, Gujarat. Editor: M.A.Joe Antony S.J. Antony M.A.Joe Editor: Gujarat. 001, 388 - Anand Road, Xavier’s St. 70, P.B. Prakash, Sahitya Gujarat Indian, S.J., Sequeira Leo Jerry Name: Printer’s Place of Publication: Anand, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, P.B. 70, St. Xavier’s Road, Anand - 388 001, Gujarat. 001, 388 - Anand Road, Xavier’s St. 70, P.B. Prakash, Sahitya Gujarat Anand, Publication: of Place Publisher’s Name: Jerry Leo Sequeira S.J., Indian, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, P.B. 70, St. Xavier’s Road, Anand - 388 001, Gujarat. 001, 388 - Anand Road, Xavier’s St. 70, P.B. Prakash, Sahitya Gujarat Indian, S.J., Sequeira Leo Jerry Name: Publisher’s of the Month, Posted at Anand H.O. H.O. Anand at Posted Month, the of 10 Posting: of Date Month, the of Published on 8 on Published th th -2014 July Jivan Up to 30.06.2014 to Up Prepayment Without Post to Licensed • AND/320/2012-14 No. Reg. JIVAN NEWS AND VIEWS OF JESUITS IN INDIA, INDIA, IN JESUITS OF VIEWS AND NEWS JIVAN R.N.I. No. GUJENG/2001/5676 No. R.N.I. • 2014 July No. of Pages 32 including cover including 32 Pages of No. garden Oh Tigris, Oh Euphrates By Carolyn Grassi Oh Tigris, Oh Euphrates watching Greek armies, Roman archers, legionnaires armed to the teeth, British forces, American military, empire-building further, further east and south across your deserts, hills, ravines, cities, villages, their shape-shifting alliances, offensives, counter- insurgencies, crushing the centuries old silk-trade routes Oh Tigris descending Armenian highlands, Oh Euphrates born in Kurdistan, watering Kunsa’s garden of Eden, marrying as one grand current sweeping through Basra emptying into the Persian Sea Oh Tigris, Oh Euphrates witness of Greeks, Romans, British, Americans sighting enemies over the next ridge, ever expanding military exploits taking a toll on men, women, children, plants, animals, here and at home: the homeless, the unemployed, the sick, the orphans, the widows, the aged, the rich richer, the poor poorer. Courtesy: (excerpts from a poem published in) America JIVAN: News and Views of Jesuits in India JULY 2014 2 garden Oh Tigris, Oh Euphrates By Carolyn Grassi Oh Tigris, Oh Euphrates watching Greek armies, Roman archers, legionnaires armed to the teeth, British forces, American military, empire-building further, further east and south across your deserts, hills, ravines, cities, villages, their shape-shifting alliances, offensives, counter- insurgencies, crushing the centuries old silk-trade routes Oh Tigris descending Armenian highlands, Oh Euphrates born in Kurdistan, watering Kunsa’s garden of Eden, marrying as one grand current sweeping through Basra emptying into the Persian Sea Oh Tigris, Oh Euphrates witness of Greeks, Romans, British, Americans sighting enemies over the next ridge, ever expanding military exploits taking a toll on men, women, children, plants, animals, here and at home: the homeless, the unemployed, the sick, the orphans, the widows, the aged, the rich richer, the poor poorer. Courtesy: (excerpts from a poem published in) America JIVAN: News and Views of Jesuits in India JULY 2014 2 what do you think? hat can you do when you there is little reason to hope for... And JULY 2014 Ware hit all of a sudden by the inescapable truth is that the U.S.’s Editor: the shocking news of a fellow Jesuit departure from Afghanistan will not being abducted in Afghanistan? (See p. bring an end to the storms of that region, M.A. Joe Antony, SJ 11) When you listen to those who have nor shield us from their effects.” Editorial office administration, typing & layout: grasped the ground realities of the war- Indian newspapers which flashed Udaya Prabhu torn nation, you understand there is the news of Premkumar’s abduction Visuvasam nothing much you can do. You can pray, forgot about it once another news story Correspondents: hope and wait. You can also read. Ever broke: 40 Indians kidnapped by the ISIS Benedict Santosh, John Rose, since this tragedy occurred, I have been in Iraq. It is rumoured that hundreds Shailendra Boora, Victor Edwin reading anything that may shed light on of Indians are trapped in the ongoing Advisory Board: what is really happening in Afghanistan conflict. Since it was Iraq, I remembered Agapit Tirkey, Benny S., and the neighbouring countries. an extremely forthright article published I read Time’s cover story (16 June by America (10 Feb ‘14). Titled, ‘What Jerry Rosario, John Joseph, ‘14) titled,“No soldier left behind” by We Wrought’ it was written by Cathy V.T. Jose, Luke Rodrigues, David Von Drehle. It was about the Breen, a peace activist who has spent Michael Amaladoss, Rex A. Pai American soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, held years in Iraq. Publisher’s Name by the Taliban in Afghanistan for more She says, “I first went to Iraq in the Jerry Leo Sequeira, S.J. than four years. In order to secure his fall of 2002... In January 2004, Voices (the Indian release, the U.S. government had to peace group she belonged to) decided to Gujarat Sahitya Prakash release five prisoners - all Taliban leaders no longer travel to central or southern P.B. 70, St. Xavier’s Road, Anand - 388001, Gujarat accused of all kinds of crimes. Iraq for fear of risking the lives of Iraqis Place of Publication Later more information began to who associated with us. The United Anand, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash P.B. 70, St. Xavier’s Road, Anand - 388001, Gujarat surface. Soon after Bergdahl was sent to States not only occupied their country; it Afghanistan, “he quickly grew cynical also created a path for terrorist groups to Printer’s Name about his mission. “These people need enter Iraq.. After the fall of the regime, I Jerry Leo Sequeira, S.J. Indian help, yet what they get is the most saw firsthand groups from surrounding Gujarat Sahitya Prakash conceited country in the world telling countries descend on Baghdad... Al P.B. 70, St. Xavier’s Road, Anand - 388001, Gujarat them that they are nothing and that Qaeda was not even in Iraq before the Printing at they are stupid, that they have no idea U.S. invasion in 2003.” Anand Press how to live,” he wrote in an email to “Between 2005 and 2011 I lived P.B. No. 95, Gamdi - Anand - 388001, Gujarat his parents... Sometime after midnight for a total of four years in Jordan and Matter for publication on 30 June 2009, Bergdahl made a neat Syria to witness and call attention to the to be sent to: pile of his armor, along with a note dire situation of hundreds of thousands The Editor, Jivan of farewell, then disappeared... More of Iraqi refugees who were forced to C/o IDCR than 24 hours later, U.S. intelligence flee the violence and death threats and, P.B. 3301, Loyola College, Chennai - 600 034 intercepted Taliban radio calls indicating far too often, the tragic deaths and/or Phone: 91-44-28175656 that they had captured an American kidnapping of family members. Late email: [email protected] soldier.” in 2011, I was finally able to return to Circulation & change of address: The American people and so the Iraq after a nine-year absence... My Circulation Manager, Jivan, American government want to withdraw latest trip was in May of last year. Back Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, P.B. 70, their troops and declare that the messy in the United States, I open my e-mail Anand - 388 001, Gujarat. war is over. But “the Bergdahl story messages with dread, wondering if email: [email protected] shows why wars continue to gnaw and I can take more bad news from Iraq, Annual Subscription: Rs.250/- grind long after the end is officially more stories of explosions and killings. As a service of information for the pronounced. Too much is smashed No one is safe. There is no safe space South Asian Jesuit Assistancy, Jivan is sent to Jesuits and their colleagues, and bloodied to be wrapped up neatly. in Iraq, not in schools, buses, mosques, collaborators and friends. Articles People must live, sometimes in turmoil, soccer stadiums.. There is no place to appearing in Jivan express the views sometimes for centuries, with loose ends. go, and no country wants to take Iraqi of the authors and not of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia. The Editor What lies in store for Afghanistan and its refugees... I receive report after report of regrets he is unable to return articles and neighbors after the U.S. departs?” kidnappings, assassinations and suicide photographs. So please keep a copy of The war in Afghanistan could end bombings.” whatever you send for publication. All material sent for publication may be for Americans, but for Afghans? “The What can we do? Says Cathy Breen, edited for reasons of space, clarity or peace of Kabul will rest on the ability of “We can only trust God that we will be policy. Readers are requested to donate Afghan factions to coexist, which, given shown the way.” generously towards Jesuit ministries. the long history of this troubled land, - M.A.J.A JIVAN: News and Views of Jesuits in India JULY 2014 3 cover feature Universal Mission of the Society in Collaboration: Challenges for South Asia JIVAN: News and Views of Jesuits in India JULY 2014 4 cover feature By Anthony da Silva, SJ The concept of universal mission is neither originally nor uniquely Jesuit. It derives principally from the theological Introduction concept of “God’s mission” (missio Dei).
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