Impact

WHAT ARE THE PROJECTS WE ARE INVOLVED IN?

SCHOLARSHIPS & THE COURSES ON OFFER

What are scholarships?
In a nutshell, non-repayable cash awards that are paid to the qualifying student, or as a discount on their tuition fees.
We offer a number of scholarships for eligible students. They’re awarded for a variety of reasons including academic achievement and/or to help those on lower incomes. All scholarships awarded to students will cover an amount of up to 50% of the contribution due for academic fees.

LEGACY BUILDING SCHOLARSHIPS:

Scholarships are tools at the service of the mission of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (APRA). Every year APRA welcomes more than 1,200 students: talented young men and women eager to build their knowledge, strengthen their spiritual life and prepare to be leaders in contemporary society.

SACRED HEART SCHOLARSHIPS

These scholarships are intended for religious of the Legionaries of Christ who are being trained before priestly ordination and who are studying at APRA. Students who demonstrate particular merit in the evangelisation of culture. Often this is displayed through the use of social media networks, engagement with influencers or thanks to their publications and followers, students share the love of Christ with the world. In addition to the scholarship amount, applicants are able to apply for a further € 1,000 for the purchase of material that can be helpful for their respective evangelising mission in social networks or publications.

Ph.D SCHOLARSHIPS

These scholarships are intended attract the best academic researchers and professors to broaden our international team and accelerate new ideas and perspectives, offering the world incisive research and publications:
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NEUROBIOETHICS: Research & Education
The Neurobioethics Research Group at APRA is committed to providing a comprehensive overview of the International neuroethical debate, offering unprecedented insights into the impact of neuroscientific research, diagnosis, therapy and enhancement.
PERSONALIST APPROACH TO BIOETHICS: Education & Research
Funds facilitate international, multi-ethnic students coming from developing nations interested in providing significant impact by spreading personalist bioethics.
CATHOLICISM & INVESTMENT ETHICS
The School of Philosophy intends to provide individual investors, financial advisors and fund managers with raised criteria for ethical investment.
RATZINGER STUDIES
“ We are building a dictatorship of relativism… that does not recognise anything as definitive and whose ultimate standard consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.” Following Ratzinger’s thought, future Christian leaders will be taught to dialogue with contemporary society, infuse perennial values in debates, and spread truth among opinion leaders, professionals and intellectuals.
FAITH, RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY
What is religion? What is faith? What is spirituality? The School of Philosophy and Theology facilitates a program that addresses critical reflection and the need to research and establish greater expertise in interfaith, inter-religious and inter spirituality dialogues from a solid Catholic and humanistic perspective.
STUDIES IN CATHOLIC THOUGHT OF THE 20th CENTURY
Research to foster dialogue between the Catholic worldview and contemporary currents of thought, integrating metaphysics and history, faith and reason, science and religion in order to answer the urgent questions arising in today’s globalized and pluralistic world. A methodical rigorous study of how individual Catholic thinkers have articulated an attractive and humanising Catholic worldview for a century marked by grand scientific and technological advances together with unprecedented conflicts and miseries, is essential in forming the Catholic intellectuals and leaders of the 21st century.
METAPHYSICAL WISDOM IN THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
The School of Philosophy is convinced that opting out of rigorous metaphysical thinking is not an option for Catholic intellectuals and leaders of today. The Christian metaphysical tradition, exemplified by the thoughts and writing of St Thomas Aquinas has proven to have enduring value. Young scholars will study this wisdom, avoid prefabricated answers when applying answers to contemporary issues. They participate in coherent dialogue with modern science, religious thought and existential hopes and fears of today’s men and women.

POSTGRAD & UNDERGRAD SCHOLARSHIPS

CHRISTIANITY & CULTURE: (Summer Program)
The course provides interactive methodology, combining lectures, workshops and outings in the Eternal City. The course seeks to empower scholars and students to evangelise culture through historical, religious, philosophical and ethical perspectives on society today.
WOMEN & WORK: Reintegrating into the Labor Market
Through this course, offered by the Institute of Higher Studies on Women, students will receive individual counselling sessions, practical exercise workshops, meetings with recruiting companies and professional entrepreneurs. The expected result is a reduction in the female unemployment rate and improvement of women’s performance and self esteem.
POSTGRAD DIPLOMA: Women in the Church
The Institute of Higher Studies on Women in collaboration with five Pontifical Universities, offer this diploma to those interested in finding deeper appreciation and a fundamental understanding of the presence and role of women within the Church.

HOPES & DREAMS: Bachelor & Masters degree

Sacerdos Institute
Sacerdos is an international academic institution that is engaged in continuing spiritual, theological, and pastoral education of priests, who are “consecrated to preach the Gospel and shepherd the faithful and to celebrate divine worship, so that they are true priests of the New Testament” (Lumen Gentium, 28.).

Each year, the Institute provides three courses that promote different aspects of pastoral charity:

Perpetual Succour Scholarship: Priestly Renewal course in the Holy Land
The Sacredos Institute offers two priestly renewal courses in January and July each year. Scholarship funding covers registration, room, board and course materials for up to 60 priests annually. A priest must strive to maintain his experience of Christ’s love as this is the source of his vocation. The course offers, those priests who have at least 5 years of priesthood or significant anniversaries of their priestly ordination, an opportunity to walk in the footsteps of Christ.
Formators course:
The Sacerdos Institute offers an international month long course for priests to be better trained and equipped as seminary formators. The course covers, psychology, human development, spiritual and apostolic formation with special attention to the challenges presented in today’s society. Globally and to date, this course has helped more than 30,000 seminarians.
Exorcism course:
An international course committed to offering a better understanding of the theoretical and practical matters concerning exorcism and demonic possession. This course is available to professionals and operators of the ministry of exorcism and the prayer of liberation. The course covers a wide range of disciplines which include: anthropological, social, theological, liturgical, canonical, pastoral, spiritual, medical neuroscientific, cultural and judicial areas of research.

SCIENCE & FAITH INSTITUTE:

POST GRAD CERTIFICATE: HOLY SHROUD STUDIES
The Science and Faith Institute, in collaboration with Othonia, the International Centre of Sindonology of Turin and the Giulio Ricci Diocesan Centre of Sindonology offers a systematic approach to the study and challenges that this exceptional cloth presents to science and human intelligence. In response to Saint John Paul II call for a ‘New Evangelization’, this certificate provides students with the necessary qualification to better understand and answer the many questions which surround the Shroud.
POSTGRAD DIPLOMA: SCIENCE & FAITH
The Science and Faith Institute offers a two year post-graduate diploma around the study of the conflict between science and the Christian religion demonstrating that the two are complementary rather than at odds. The course is open to both religious and lay students.

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights

This UNESCO Chair in collaboration with the Faculty of Bioethics of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome and the European University of Rome, has the mission of analysing and improving the understanding of bioethical issues in relation to human rights. The activities of the Institute (teaching, scientific research, anddissemination of its line of thought) are founded on a humanist model of bioethics of Christian inspiration.
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) signed an agreement with the APRA and the European University of Rome to create a UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights. The Chair, which makes part of the Institute of Bioethics and Human Rights, promotes the exchange of ideas and the sharing of experiences through a dialogue with higher-education institutions in various countries, especially developing ones.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors we have consistently supported this post over the past several years and provided funding for the inter-religious dialogue on bioethical themes.

Charity Concert

Thanks to the dedication and consistent support of Margery Au and all her team, we remain grateful that her Charity Concert is now an annual feature in the calendar. The fundraising concert brings together an array of supporters and musicians who contribute their talent and skills to performing a magnificent array of music. Over the years we have been able to support:

2021 Hong Kong students at the Catholic World Fellowship
2022 School of Bioethics of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
2023 Endowment Fund

If you know of a student who could be interested, be sure to share the application form:
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https://catholicworldview.com/apply/
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VIEWS CHARITY CONCERT 2023

JF Publishing

JF Publishing was founded in 2002 by Joan Foo Mahony, lawyer, author and philanthropist.

Joan’s boundless generosity has enabled 100% of the proceeds from a selection of her books to directly benefit the mission of the Regina Apostolorum Foundation.

We are deeply grateful to Joan for her generosity and enthusiasm in participating in our mission, both through her books as well as through her financial support.

In 2000, Joan retired from her more than three-decades-long international legal career in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong to focus on writing, editing, publishing, and philanthropy. She founded JF Publishing and Cross Time Matrix in 2003. Since then Joan has published beautiful and elegant books on historical fiction, wellness, art, sailing, cooking, and gardens and architecture.

Books published by JFPublishing that support our mission:

Art Exhibitions

Thanks to the creativity of Father Joseph Tham’s tremendous skill and grace with Chinese brush painting, calligraphy and seal carving to describe the essence of his subject matter – the glory and the mystery of God, the Regina Apostolorum Foundation Hong Kong has benefitted generously from the proceeds from his recent exhibitions.
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“Art for God” Artworks and Spiritual Reflections exhibition (2022). Our thanks to Anita Chan Lai-ling for the use of the gallery and Sin Sin Man for curation of the exhibition.
Beauty of the Universe Art Exhibit at Sunway University (January2023)
Macao Catholic Culture Association the “Art for God” Artworks and Spiritual Reflections Exhibition (September 2023), our thanks to the leadership of Joni Cheng