Within the Jesuit Network

Bontola daw Bigula 2025: Youth and elders gather to remember and imagine

In a mission-wide celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Month, the mountains of Miarayon stirred with the footsteps and laughter of youth arriving from the different tribes reached by the Jesuit Bukidnon Mission District – the Pulangiyēn, Umajamnon, Manobo, Higaonon, Bukidnon, and…
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Quiet achievements, stronger futures: APC-Bendum celebrates JWL course completions

This year’s Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL) cycle in APC brings encouraging news – stories of perseverance, growth, and small but meaningful victories that strengthen APC’s mission. Across five different JWL courses, seven indigenous youth and teachers completed their programs and…
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APC learns and hopes with Jesuit educators at JBEC gathering

Educators from the Jesuit Basic Education Commission (JBEC) schools gathered in September 2025 at Xavier University Pueblo Campus in Cagayan de Oro City for several days of learning, prayer, and sharing. Risajean Berdesola and Bridgit Ann Cuevas-Garcia joined from APC…
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Cultivating resilience: Participatory research and climate justice in Upper Pulangi, Philippines

Rowena Soriaga and Pedro Walpole SJ Through the lens of climate justice, a community-based research initiative in 2024 assessed the food and water vulnerability of smallholder farmers in the Upper Pulangi Watershed in Bukidnon, Philippines that provided critical insights into…
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Living (in) Laudato Si’, called to take a path less trodden

Caroline Seow Together with Louie Bacomo from JRS Asia Pacific, five urban dwellers travelled to the mountains of Bukidnon, Mindanao, to better understand the effects of climate change and unchecked development on indigenous communities. Our journey—via jeepney, motorbike, and on foot—led us to Sitio Kaulayanan in…
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