Messages of Hope from Jesuit University Presidents
To mark the Ignatian Year, which celebrates 500 years since the conversion of St. Ignatius.
To mark the inauguration of the Ignatian Year in May 2021 and the centennial of the State of Greater Lebanon (1920-2020), the presidents of Jesuit universities conveyed a message of hope to our students and to the USJ Community as well.
A message of hope for our Lebanese youth in their search for a brighter future in a Lebanon in the grip of an unprecedented series of crises: economic crisis, social crisis, political crisis, healthcare crisis, all of which were compounded by the devastating explosion of August 4.
This initiative called for by the Rector of Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Prof. Salim Daccache s.j., involved the participation of:
Reverend Father Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal, s.j.
The Superior General of the Jesuits
Reverend Father Saul Cuautle Quechol, s.j.
Rector of la Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de Mexico
Reverend Father José Maria Guibert Ucin, s.j.
Rector of University of Deusto
Professor Naji Habra
Rector of the University of Namur
Reverend Father Etienne Grieu, s.j.
Rector of Centre Sèvres – Jesuit Faculties of Paris
Reverend Professor Jozef Bremer, s.j.
Rector of Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow
Reverend Father Luke Sim Jong-Hyeok, s.j.
President of Sogang University
Reverend Father Salim Daccache, s.j.,
Rector of Saint Joseph University of Beirut