Mark Raper
Mark Raper SJ AM is a Jesuit priest. He currently serves as President of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific[1] (formerly known as the Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania), based in Manila.[2] He was previously Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus[3] in Oceania from 2002 until 2008.
Biography
From 1982 he was the first Director for the Asia-Pacific arm of the Jesuit Refugee Service. He went on to become Global Director of JRS.
In 2001 he held a Visiting Chair in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington DC and was named a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his service to refugees.
He received the 2004 Australian Council For International Development Human Rights Award for his work in East Timor, Indonesia, Bosnia, Burma and Thailand.[4]
He attended St Ignatius' College, Riverview.
See also
References
- ↑ "About JCAP — Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific Website (retrieved 1 December 2010)
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- ↑ "Mark Raper SJ: Provincial" — Australian Jesuits (retrieved 6 June 2006)
- ↑ "Response by Mark Raper SJ AM on receiving the ACFID Award" — UNIYA Social Justice Centre (retrieved 6 June 2006)
- 1956, Karl Rahner, and all that follows, Encounter, ABC Radio National, 24 September 2006
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