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Province Apostolic Plan 2022-2029

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Province Apostolic Plan 2022-2029

For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? (Luke 14:28)

Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:34)

Animated by the Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society and encouraged by understanding them as “orientations that go beyond ‘doing something’ and enable us to achieve our transformation as persons” according to Fr. General’s letter of 2019 , the Chinese Province responded by embarking on a journey of over two years to develop a Province Apostolic Plan (PAP) 2022 – 2029. This document sets out the Vision, Priorities, Goals, Actions and Follow-up Measures for a Review of the Plan which will guide the Province in the years ahead.



Under the direction of a nine-person Preparatory Team consisting of both Jesuits and lay partners (both men and women), we held three Province Assemblies over two years. We discussed the Culture of Positivity and Collaboration necessary for our conversion, conducted a Province-wide SWOT analysis as an exercise to gain a more concrete grasp of our situation.

In the interim period between the First and the Second Assemblies, the mission of the Society was revisited and the context of our Province was analyzed. The Second Assembly was then devoted to formulating the Vision of the PAP. After arriving at a consensus for the Vison, drafts of the Priorities under the Vision were also developed. Subsequent to the Assembly, the Priorities were refined and confirmed. They are presented below:

Vision Statement

Inspired by Ignatian spirituality and in creative collaboration, we, Jesuits and Companions in Mission, aspire to journey with all, especially the youth and the deprived, towards reconciliation and a future filled with hope and joy.

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August 2, 2022

By James Grundvig, American Media Periscope

First and foremost, Nancy Pelosi’s broadcast trip to Taiwan sought to burnish her dented image with a tough on Communist China stance. That it comes after a slew of public scandals that weakened her politically shouldn’t surprise anyone. Her trip also served a second purpose as a media distraction away from the missing-in-action President Joe Biden.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (L) with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei. [Taiwan Presidential Office via AFP]

Pelosi’s half-dozen scandals are coming to a head in 2022, including her husband Paul’s DUI arrest in Napa Valley in late May. Then what about the FBI is investigating her son Paul Pelosi Jr.’s alleged bribe scheme with links to five shady companies?

From the New York Post: “The 52-year-old Paul Pelosi Jr., the only son of Nancy and Paul Pelosi Sr., was hired by several firms that were subject to both federal and state probes, and meanwhile has ‘connections to a host of fraudsters, rule-breakers, and convicted criminals…'”

Then there is the conflict of Paul and Nancy’s raking in millions from her Congressional microchip insider trading, which, belatedly, led to a new bill to prevent such gross abuse of power. Last week, her husband Paul dumped Nvidia stock, making a huge profit on the exit.

Yet, more problematic for the American peoples is Nancy Pelosi‘s loss of mental acuity, her inability to form coherent sentences or string along a single thought. This issue dates back to November 2021. And it should be a concern for every American.

Long past her expiration date, the 80-year-old House Speaker’s trip to Taiwan marked more than a political stunt. Nancy Pelosi needed to show the world she is tough, in command, and won’t back down from CCP threats, despite being in bed with Communist China on multiple fronts.

The only question remains: How deep in bed is Pelosi with the CCP? Joe Biden deep? Hunter Biden deep? Or does she wade into the shallow end of the corruption pool?

For Nancy Pelosi, it’s all about securing a trifecta on her way to retirement. Her legacy. A windfall of money. And concealing her corruption in Ukraine and other geopolitical hotbeds.

Another scandal, which came and then disappeared in a flash, saw the Congresswoman dance around around 200 Republicans demand that she launch a Covid-19 origin investigation. Such a probe would likely expose and link her to the CCP virus pandemic coverup committed by many agencies of the U.S. government.

Taiwan becomes first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage

Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage May 17, as thousands of demonstrators outside parliament cheered and waved rainbow flags. (Reuters)
By Nick Aspinwall 

May 17, 2019 at 8:40 AM EDT


TAIPEI, Taiwan — Thousands of marriage-equality advocates celebrated Friday in the pouring rain outside Taiwan’s legislature as it voted to become the first in Asia to fully legalize same-sex unions.

The law — which allows for same-sex couples to apply for “marriage registration” as part of “exclusive permanent unions” — came a week before Taiwan’s codes barring same-sex marriage would have been automatically dropped by court order.

Lawmakers had faced pressure from LGBT groups demanding sweeping changes and from religious groups and others opposing the changes. Friday’s 66-to-27 vote recognizes same-sex marriages and gives couples many of the tax, insurance and child-custody benefits available to male-female married couples.

Taiwan’s high court ruled on May 24, 2017, that barring same-sex couples from marrying violates the Taiwanese constitution and gave the legislature two years to pass a corresponding law or see same-sex marriage become legalized automatically.

The process frequently stalled amid conservative opposition. And in November 2018, Taiwan voted in a public referendum to deny same-sex couples full marriage rights.

Taiwan invites pope to visit after landmark China-Vatican pact

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Holy See is Taiwan's last diplomatic ally in Europe; one of only 17 around the world.
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Taiwan has invited Pope Francis to visit the self-ruled island, just weeks after China and the Vatican reached a landmark agreement on the appointment of bishops on the mainland.

Taiwan's Vice President Chen Chien-jen met the pope on Sunday and invited him to visit, the president's office said in a statement. Chen added the pope said he would pray for Taiwan, but did not give a date for the proposed visit.

China claims Taiwan as its own and the island has diplomatic relations with only 17 countries around the world, mostly in Central America and the Pacific. The Vatican is Taiwan's last diplomatic ally in Europe.

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Last month's deal with China gives the Holy See a say over the appointment of bishops, although both sides have called the agreement "provisional".

Man Dies on Set of Martin Scorsese's Latest Film

Martin Scorsese
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BY MICHELE CORRISTON @mcorriston

01/29/2015 AT 12:55 PM EST
An accident on the Taiwan set of Martin Scorsese's most recent movie has killed one worker and injured two others.

Chen Yu-lung died Thursday after scaffolding he was trying to dismantle collapsed on top of him, the Taipei City Fire department told the country's Central News Agency. The others were hospitalized with leg and head injuries.

Scorsese's latest directorial effort,Silence, is in pre-production at Taiwan's Chinese Culture and Movie Center Studios. The film is slated for release in 2016 and stars Liam Neeson and Andrew Garfield as 17th century Jesuit priests working in Japan.

"An existing structure on the CMPC backlot had been deemed unsafe by the production, and accordingly a third-party contractor was hired to reinforce and make it safe prior to any production-related work commencing in this building," a spokesman told Deadline Hollywood of the tragedy. "Sadly, during this process, the ceiling collapsed, resulting in the death of one of the contractor's employees and injuries to two others.


"Everyone is in shock and sorrow and expresses their deepest concern and sympathy to the families of the individual who died and those who were injured."

Scorsese, 72, is currently in Taiwan, but it is not known whether he was on the lot when the accident occurred, according to the Associated Press.

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Earthquake Strikes Central Taiwan; One Dead, Some Factories Disrupted

03/27/2013| 05:23am US/Eastern


--Officials say collapsing wall kills one person

--TSMC says quake had "minimal impact" on production

(Recasts first paragraph to update with one person dead; adds new details of damage and factory disruptions throughout) By Aries Poon and Lorraine Luk


TAIPEI--An earthquake killed at least one person and disrupted operations at some electronics factories in central Taiwan on Wednesday morning, but the rest of the island was largely unscathed.

The Central Weather Bureau said that the magnitude 6.1 quake struck at 10:03 a.m. local time (0203 GMT) and was centered in Nantou County at a depth of 15.4 kilometers. Aftershocks as strong as magnitude 4.3 rattled the area for the next two and a half hours. The initial temblor shook buildings in the capital, Taipei, 120 kilometers to the north.

A collapsing wall killed a 72-year-old woman at a temple in Nantou County, the National Fire Agency said, adding that 19 other people across central Taiwan were injured, mostly by falling objects. The injured included one person struck by a section of ceiling at a government office in Nantou County, the fire agency said.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (>> Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd.), the world's largest contract chip maker by revenue, evacuated two of its factories in central and northern Taiwan after the earthquake. But a spokesman for the Hsinchu-based company said that employees had gone back to work and that the quake had a "minimal impact" on production.

TSMC added that it has an emergency mechanism that automatically orders employees to evacuate when an earthquake of magnitude 4 or greater is detected.

Flat-panel maker AU Optronics Cop. (>> AU Optronics Corp.) said Wednesday afternoon that operations at some of its facilities in central Taiwan remained suspended after halting because of the quake. Innolux Corp. (>> Innolux Corp) said that its production was unaffected.

At The Wall Street Journal's Taipei office the quake was felt for at least 15 seconds, shaking the ceiling violently enough that it squeaked.

Television footage showed large boulders littering roads in central Taiwan, as well as books scattered on the floor of a public library and home interiors sprinkled with broken glass, fallen wall tiles and other debris.

Taiwan lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is frequently hit by earthquakes. The last major quake--a magnitude 7.6 temblor that killed more than 2,000 people--struck in 1999 and was also centered in Nantou County.

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Taiwan Jolted by 6.4 Quake

ASIA NEWS
MARCH 3, 2010, 8:05 P.M. ET
Taiwan Jolted by 6.4 Quake

By PERRIS LEE CHOON SIONG

TAIPEI -- An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale hit the Kaohsiung area in southern Taiwan early Thursday, the island's Central Weather Bureau said.

The earthquake lasted for 53 seconds, it said.

The bureau said the earthquake's intensity was measured two on the Richter Scale in Taiwan's capital city Taipei and in Hsinchu, where many of the island's technology companies are located.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Write to Perris Lee Choon Siong at perris.lee@dowjones.com

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703862704575100252339864376.html?mod=WSJ_business_AsiaNewsBucket

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Earthquake hits Taiwan, no initial reports of damage

TAIPEI
Wed Mar 3, 2010 7:44pm EST

TAIPEI (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 shook Taiwan on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, officials said.

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Taiwan uses the Richter scale to measure earthquake intensity. The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 6.5.

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 8:18 am (0018 GMT), was around the southern city of Kaohsiung at a depth of 5 km, the Central Weather Bureau said.

Earthquakes occur frequently in Taiwan, which lies on a seismically active stretch of the Pacific basin.

One of Taiwan's worst-recorded quakes occurred in September 1999. Measuring 7.6, it killed more than 2,400 people and destroyed or damaged 50,000 buildings.

(Reporting by Jonathan Standing; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)


Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62304M20100304
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Exemplary International Mobilization Aids Haitians

With the USGS confirming that the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday was 7.0 in magnitude, the scale of the devastation in the Caribbean nation begins to make sense. While details were scarce on Wednesday, in the last 48 hours, numerous reports and images have begun to emerge from the re... [ read more >> ]

With the USGS confirming that the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday was 7.0 in magnitude, the scale of the devastation in the Caribbean nation begins to make sense. While details were scarce on Wednesday, in the last 48 hours, numerous reports and images have begun to emerge from the region. In addition to on-scene reporting, satellite images were also made available to search&rescue teams in Haiti and abroad. Already, emergency response teams are at the location in the poor nation, and others as far as Taiwan are getting ready to move there too, or are already en route.

Venezuela, Great Britain, Taiwan, the United States, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Cuba have already sent teams in Haiti, and some of the groups have already reached the theater of operations and are conducting relief efforts. The United States have sent an aircraft carrier and a bunch of other support vessels in the region, as well as a contingent of more than 2,000 soldiers. It is still unclear if they are to secure peace, or to help with the relief efforts, but Obama said shortly after the tremor that Haiti would benefit from the fullest cooperation and support on the part of the US.

The Brazilian Army, which also intervened, set up camps of tents and started providing emergency medical assistance to the victims. The field hospitals that Cuba had in the country were overrun with injured people since the first hours after the earthquake struck.

In spite of being under international embargo, Cuba has hospitals in many countries around the world, in which it provides medical assistance for the poor. Regardless of the efforts set forth by these countries and Haitian authorities, the situation is growing desperate, on account of the tens of thousands of people that were injured or killed in the shallow tremor.


UNICEF has also begun relief efforts aimed at the children of Haiti. Of the 9.6 million inhabitants that the Caribbean nation has, more than half are below the age of 21. The UN agency has dispatched teams from its New York, Panama and Dominican Republic centers, to aid with the relief efforts, and to deliver medication to the affected people.

Some of the most basic supplies include oral rehydration salts (that prevent diarrhea), water-purification tablets, and tarpaulins / tents, for temporal housing. The Venezuelan response team has also brought in numerous medical equipments, and the Los Angeles team, which is due to arrive shortly, also carries with it impressive amounts of supplies.

Satellites have done their part as well. The GeoEye 1 Earth-observing spacecraft has captured, on Wednesday, its first images of the affected areas. The large scale of the devastation could be seen for the first time from low-Earth orbit. The new datasets help experts devise rescue plans, and also map the areas that are most likely to have many victims. This, in turn, helps them prioritize their efforts, and makes their work a lot more efficient. In addition, the new maps are compared with old ones of the same locations, and then experts identify the hardest hit areas. More supplies can then be redirected to those locations, where people need them more.

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