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Out There No One Has a Right to Die. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Häyry M.
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Public health leadership: a framework inspired by timeless lessons from 500 years of the Jesuit tradition [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
The complex and dynamic nature of public health challenges calls for public health leaders who are able to respond with agility, insight, and integrity.
Laura Chyu, Erin G. Grinshteyn, Taryn Vian, Timothy Godfrey S.J.   +3 more
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The Confession of King Gälawdewos (r. 1540–1559): A Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Monophysite Document against Jesuit Proselytism

Aethiopica, 2023
The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia represented one of the most serious challenges of Ethiopian Christianity during the early modern times. The mission had two phases.
Solomon Gebreyes Beyene
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The Guenoa Minuanos and the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní

Fronteras de la Historia, 2021
The Jesuit province of Paraquaria included missions established within both sedentary and non-sedentary indigenous groups. This study examines the Guenoa Minuanos and their interactions with the Jesuit mission San Francisco de Borja.
Robert Howard Jackson
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Assessing Jesuit Intellectual Apostolate in Modern Shanghai (1847–1949)

Religions, 2021
The various endeavors led by Jesuits under the auspices to the Plan Scientifique du Kiang-Nan (Scientific Plan for the Jiangnan region) constituted a defining moment in the history of their mission in modern China. The Jesuits aimed to found a scientific
Wei Mo
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La mission d’Arménie des jésuites et la production des savoirs à la fin de l’Empire ottoman (1881-1914)

European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2022
Jesuit members of the mission of Armenia established in 1881 at the initiative of pope Leo XIII were prolific scientific authors. Their apostolic work across central Anatolia, from Marsovan/Merzifon to Adana, provided them with the occasion to become ...
Philippe Bourmaud
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A Jesuit-Lyonnais Project in Nineteenth-Century Beirut: Multiplicities of the Local and Global at the Université Saint-Joseph

ABE Journal, 2021
This paper examines the establishment of the Jesuit Université Saint-Joseph from 1875 in Beirut and explores the Jesuits’ dual allegiance to France and Rome.
Yasmina El Chami
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The Jesuits and the misdirections of a mission

Pro-Posições, 2022
Abstract The paper investigates a crisis linked to the action of the Jesuits from the Province of Brazil, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This crisis took place among the members of the Society and is exposed, in this manuscript, through criticisms directed to the superiors and in the complaints of deviant behaviors, made by the priests ...
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Traducir, editar, evangelizar: el discurso jesuita del “siglo cristiano en Japón” desde la perspectiva de la modernidad-colonialidad (siglo XVI)

Historia Crítica, 2017
The Jesuit mission in Japan began in 1549. It was a historic experience that is becoming increasingly important in academic research. This article uses discourse analysis to analyze it in connection with the formation of the world-system in early ...
Paula Hoyos Hattori, Pablo Gavirati Miyashiro   +1 more
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Z Isfahanu do Warszawy

Lehahayer, 2023
FROM ISFAHAN TO WARSAW: POSTHUMOUS INVENTORIES OF SALOMON SYRI (ZGÓRSKI), ENVOY OF JAN III SOBIESKI TO PERSIA The embassy of Salomon Syri (Zgórski), an Armenian in the service of Polish King Jan III Sobieski, to Persian Shah Suleiman I, undertaken in
Ryszard Skowron
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