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Celebrating 15 years of
JRS in Afghanistan
Remembering with gratitude
THANK YOU!!
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On April 28, 2005, Fr Santiago and Br Noel reached Kabul to begin the JRS mission in Afghanistan.
Whatever we have achieved since then is because of God’s abundant blessings, the support of committed team, dedicated volunteers/co-workers, and steadfast partnerships with Jesuit networks and generous donors across borders.
Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot come together to celebrate, but we want to ‘invite you in’ even when we’re dispersed across the world and ‘locked down’ by fears and self-protectiveness. Solidarity and friendship are even more precious than ever now.
Whatever this mission has accomplished is only because of God’s grace, the support of committed Jesuits, dedicated volunteers and co-workers, and steadfast partnerships with Jesuit networks and generous donors across borders.
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A COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION
SUCCESS STORIES
Gerhard Böwering SJ
In fall 1964, Gerhard travelled, together with Anton Heinen, on a freighter from Rotterdam to Karachi, Pakistan, stopping over at Mumbai and Pune, in India. Now based at Yale University, where he has been teaching since 1984, he recounts his visits to Afghanistan:
From 1964 to 1967, he studied in Lahore, and then left by boat to Egypt to study Arabic during the summer of 1967. Three years later, he returned to Pakistan, where he was ordained on May 5, 1970. In July he returned to Germany via Afghanistan (Jalalabad, Kabul, Ghazni, Kandahar, Helmand, Herat). During this month-long journey, he got to know the country, its people, their extraordinary hospitality, and the local scholarly work. Gerhard remembers meeting the Dominican Fr. Beaurecueil, who cared for orphans in his home, while working for many years in Kabul.
Gerhard received his doctorate in Islamic studies in1975 from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In 1976, he visited Afghanistan again, for just two days, with a group of Muslim scholars on the occasion of the Seerat Conference in Peshawar, Pakistan.