St. Ignatius of Loyola
Founder (of the Society of Jesus, as the Province's site says)Founder of Karnataka Jesuits
St. Ignatius of Loyola is the founder (of the society of jesus, as the province's site says) of Karnataka Jesuits[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and faith-based service from Bengaluru.
Karnataka Jesuits
The Karnataka province of the Jesuits runs an extensive network of institutions across the state: schools in Bengaluru, Mangaluru, Mundgod, Manvi and other towns, pre-university and degree colleges including St Joseph's University in Bengaluru, industrial training institutes, parishes, and retreat houses such as Dhyanashrama. Its work joins education with Ignatian spirituality and inter-religious dialogue.
Karnataka Jesuits reports the following, on its own site:
- 3,949 children from rural villages and urban slums are reached out through rights based and supplementary education programmes
- 11,346 women empowered from rural sections of our society through Self-Help Groups and various conscientization programmes
- 751 youth are trained and placed through skill training projects every year
- 20,185 students in our schools who are given value-based education, equipping them to be better citizens
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- Based in
- Bengaluru
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References
- [1] “As we prepare to celebrate the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, we give thanks for the gift of our founder, the charism of the Society, and the grace of our Jesuit vocation.” — Karnataka Jesuits. Source
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