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TESTIMONES

Listen to Jesuits who served with us

Santiago SJ

I take this opportunity to congratulate the JRS team for organizing this special celebration on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Afghanistan mission

In 2003 I had gone for a long-term mission to Cambodia.  In late 2004, I was asked whether I would be prepared to go to Afghanistan

Prem Kumar SJ

I now have an inseparable identity as Afghan Prem or Captivity Prem, thanks to my captivity in Afghanistan for 8 months and 20 days.

Noel Oliver SJ

Jerome Sequeira SJ

I am away from the JRS Afghanistan mission since 2015 and yet the flame of Afghanistan mission continues to burn

Sahaya Jude SJ

I worked in two provinces of Afghanistan, Herat and Bamiyan. Afghanistan opened me to new horizons of uncertainties

Maria Joseph SJ

It has been many years now since my last visit to Afghanistan in 2014.  But I still get asked what Afghanistan was like.

John Mezsia SJ  

As a Jesuit novice in 2005, I often used to flip through Servir magazine in our Novitiate library. I was fascinated about JRS work. 

Alex G

I consider it an honour

to be a part of the thanksgiving event for the very many ways God has been directing and guiding the Afghan Mission for the last 15 years

People there are in desperate and dire need of assistance in all possible ways. Afghanistan is a country torn apart by external and internal wars for decades.

John Kennedy SJ

Sujay Daniel

The mission of Afghanistan is close to everyone who has been there. For me, it definitely is

Santiago SJ

I came to Afghanistan with a hope to be an instrument in Divine hands to accompany the people who have lost everything in war

Sebastian Nallail SJ

Thanks for making me relive some of the heartfelt experiences in Kabul during my two years stay there.

Ronald Antony SJ

Orville De Silva SJ

Having spent the last six years in that country has afforded me grace and opportunities.

Santiago SJ

Afghanistan has fascinated me since Tagore’s tale of the Kabuliwallah in schoolIt came within my reach, however, because JRS & the South Asian Jesuits got involved in this mountainous land

Pascal Meyer SJ

When I think back to my visit to Afghanistan, one word comes to mind: gratitude. 

Vincent Braganza SJ

Learoy Rodrigues SJ

I’ve had much to cherish.

I was glad to open myself

up to a distinct culture,

a different worldview, especially the hazara way

of life.

Santiago SJ

At the moment, two thoughts strikingly surface within me. Firstly, I witnessed the innate meaning of truth and freedom during my tenure in Afghanistan.

Linto Kanichai SJ

Thomas Vaz SJ

It was a privilege to be associated with this JRS endeavour. It made me realize what it means to be

a Jesuit.

Santiago SJ

Through my study of the mission, I discovered that the hard learnings of the pioneers have now become the collective wisdom for the mission

Cristóbal Roa SJ

My time in that mission is over. I retain the memory of those six months lived intensely. Those companions continued their mission in Afghanistan.

Paul D’Souza SJ

What an immense joy to learn that our Jesuit/JRS Afghan mission is completing 15

grace-filled years! The glad communique ushers in waves of wonderful memories from my teaching ministry at Herat University.

Dominic S. Irudayaraj SJ

James Regina C. Dabhi SJ

Santiago SJ

I experienced a deep joy in accompanying students and NGOs. Exploring the causes of conflicts and impact on different communities of people in Afghanistan

Photo courtesy- Steve McCurry, Musafer Ali

& JRS photo. 

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