The Migration Panorama in Malaysia by Sch. Nalerin Erone Nahfirin, SJ
This article is meant to be a preparation material for the Jesuits Scholastic and Brother Circle (SBC) meeting held in the Jesuit Apostolic Center and Sogang University, Seoul, Korea on December 19 - 28, 2016.
Introduction “Malaysia, truly Asia” is a slogan launched by the Tourism Malaysia since 1999 to promote Malaysia as one of the exceptional tourist destinations in the world. Since then, Malaysia has brought more than 7.4 million tourists from all over the world (Munan 2002). Ironically, the slogan is not only capture the essence of the country’s unique diversity, but also illustrates the social dilemma of the immigrant labors faced by the country. Owing to its inclusive connotation, this slogan
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Coupled with lax enforcement and the absence of an effective mechanism to manage migrant workers, has resulted in millions of foreigners outstaying their employment contracts (Lek 2016). On the other hand, the foreign workers are also confronting with high risk of xenophobic threats and terrible racial discriminations by the Malaysian government (Aw 2016). Hays exposed that the foreign workers are barred from marrying local women, opening bank accounts, changing jobs or traveling. He quoted the founder of the Tenaganita group, Irene Fernandez, saying that the foreign workers are constantly stopped, questioned and arrested even when they have valid documents. During a 1998 "Operation Get Out" campaign, illegal workers were rounded up and placed in detention centers; their heads were shaved, they were loaded on boats and sent back to Indonesia. By hook or by crook, they kept coming back to Malaysia by boat from Indonesia because the economic situation there was worse than Malaysia (Hays
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Rodriguez makes a point of stating that there are tensions between the “brother religions”, religions that should be unified but instead are “united and divided by the masculine sense of faith”, still this same pattern is shown within the church (146). Rodriguez acknowledges the fact that the church is being divided each day due
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Because of religions importance in people�s live, many people chose to devote their lives to serve God and do the Church’s work. These monks and nuns lived apart from the world and lived in special communities called monasteries or nunneries. Monks and nuns promised to ...
This great “Father of the Church,” wrote a handbook on the three theological virtues: faith, hope, and love. The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love was written in the year 420. It is a brief handbook on the proper mode of serving God, through faith, hope, and love. It is easy to say what one ought to believe, what to hope for, and what to love. But to defend our doctrines against the slander of those who think differently is a more difficult and detailed task. If one is to have this wisdom, it is not enough just to put an enchiridion in the hand. It is also necessary that a great eagerness be in the heart.
From the Catholic observation point, the Church presents two parts: One representing its divine nature as the untarnished body of Christ, and one direc...
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St. Ignacio de Loyola is the founder of “Society of Jesus,” or the Jesuits. Not only was he the founder of a major Catholic order, before this, he was a soldier. His experience as a soldier, particularly at an attack in Pamplona, marked the beginnings of his mystical transformation as the time needed for his recuperation allowed him to read and reflect on religious texts. From there, Loyola embarked on a pilgrimage throughout Europe promoting missionary work and prolific knowledge of religious texts. His mystical venture took root not only in the spiritual reveries, but also within historical context, as the Protestant Reformation emerged to reform the Catholic Church.
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The Story of Christianity is a very informative summation; a continuation of Volume 1 which covered the beginning of the church up to the Protestant Reformation, while Vol. 2 dealt with the Protestant Reformation up to more modern time period. This author delivers a more comprehensive and deeper look into the development of Christianity, which includes particular events which had transpired throughout the world; particularly how Christianity has expanded into Central and South America. Gonzalez opens up this book with the “Call for Reformation,” where he shares with his readers the need for reform; the papacy had started to decline and was corrupt, in addition to the Great Schism, which had further weakened the papacy (p.8). The author explains how the church was not the only issue but that the church’s teachings were off track as well, seeing that the people had deviated from...
The Spiritual Exercises: not only speak to the Jesuits but also to the religious of other congregations; not only to the religious but also to the laity; not only to Catholics but also to the Protestants. In other words, the Spiritual Exercises speak to all who believe in God and base their spirituality on the gospel message. First I will define what a spirituality of vocation is. Second I will explain what the Spiritual Exercises mean. Third I will try to show how the Spiritual Exercises are a representation of a universal call to the Christian gospel. Then I will conclude by stating my stand.
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