Welcome to the Official Site of Zimbabwe Jesuit Province

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TODAY'S COVER PICTURE: Jesuits Ziimbabwe annual Province Assembly: Display from Catholic Students Chaplaincy. For more pictures of this occasion click HERE

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APOLOGIES: Not sure what happened – would anyone be so malicious as to hack this site?

Anyway, we've had problems . . . but it's now in process of being fixed.

1-3 February

Education Delegates from African Province met at St Ignatius' College.

2-3 January

Province Assembly Pictures

30 November

Novices finished their experiences at L'Arche, Emerald Hill School for Hearing Impaired, St Peter's Mbare High School, and returned to Lusaka.

24 November

Jesuit AIDS Project annual Young People Making a Difference festival at St Dominic's High School, Chishawasha.

22 October

First meeting of young Jesuit priests and brothers group held at Emmaus House, Harare.

20 October

Jesuit High Schools annual music & culture festival was held at Arrupe College, Harare.

17 October

Silveira House hosted a conference for Catholic organisations and professionals involved in justice, peace and reconciliation work in Zimbabwe

10 October

Frs Gibson Munyoro, Ugenio Phiri, Stephen Silungwe made their final vows, while Theodore Noudjitoloum and Alhonse Pigan Lanhezidou of West Africa Province, made their first vows at Arrupe College.

03 October

Jesuit AIDS Project held a stakeholders conference at Oasis hotel in Harare

29 September

St Rupert's Mission Primary School, Makonde, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation.

27 September

Fr Ted Rogers' 'Social Pioneer and AIDS Activist' 324 pages of memoirs were launched at Arrupe College in Harare.

22 September

Six 2nd year novices (Louis Matope, Ashton Mugozhi, Busani Ndlovu, Nicholas Simusamba, Aaron Tambani, Tendai Matare) arrived in Harare to spend 9 weeks working at St Peter's Mbare / L'Arche centre for disabled / Emerald Hill school for deaf.

A Brief Introduction to the Jesuits

The Jesuits are a religious order within he Catholic Church in Zimbabwe. Currently there are about 120 Jesuits living and working here in Zimbabwe in a variety of different apostolates. Perhaps what we are most well-known for are the schools that we own and run like St. Georges College, St. Ignatius and St. Peter’s Kubatana, as well as the mission schools we run on behalf of the diocese at Makumbi, Musami and Makonde, in all 18 schools in the Harare and Chinhoyi dioceses.

Jesuits are involved in running 4 parishes in Harare: Mount Pleasant, Braeside, St. Peter’s Mbare, Mabelreign-Marlborough-Dzivarasekwa, as well as Chishawasha just outside Harare. We are also responsible for a further five rural parishes: Banket, Makonde and Murombedzi, Makumbi and Musami.

Social development that focuses on building a more just, equitable and participative society is another central work of the Jesuits in this country. This apostolate is run mainly from our social centre at Silveira House, but has other dimensions, such as the Jesuit Aids Project, Zambuko House rehabilitation and skills training home for street kids, and the Pedro Arrupe home and education centre for hearing impaired children, as well as the Jesuit Relief Fund that distributes food to those most in need around the country.

A few Jesuits are also involved in the media, running publications, producing documentaries and radio programmes.

Woven into all of this diverse tapestry of activities is the spirituality apostolate, where we as Jesuits seek to communicate to others the gifts, the freedom, and the joy of our Ignatian spiritual heritage. We do this most directly through the giving of retreats and the formation of 'Christian Life Communities'. But this Ignatian spirituality invariably shines out also through all of our other various works.