Pastoral Review
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Year 2007 |
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The East Asian Pastoral Review
came to life in 1980. The East Asian Pastoral Institute existed since
1961, when Fr. J. Hofinger, an Austrian, and a group of Jesuits
expelled from China (1949), started a center of activities in the
barracks of what had been a concentration camp of the world war II. In
1962 they published a first quarterly review, Good Tidings,
with a yearly subscription rate of 0.60 US$! In 1964 a liturgical
supplement, Amen, was added, under the direction of Fr. Paul Brunner,
an Alsatian Jesuit. The same year, Fr. Hofinger began another review,
Teaching All Nations,
which would propagate the missionary and pastoral ideas, emerging from
the second Vatican council. At the end of the 70s, the Institute was
loaded with several minor periodicals, which were too heavy burden for
the limited personnel. Therefore, the staff took the decision to merge
the various publications into the East Asian Pastoral Review,
under the direction of Fr. Felipe Gómez. The inaugural issue
appeared in winter of 1979, as the last issue of the volume 17th of
Teaching All Nations. The first year of EAPR, started with volume 18th,
to show continuity with the previous periodicals.
Editor: Fr.
Jeyaraj Rasiah, S.J.
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