September, 2019

“What have you done?Your neighbour’s blood cries out to me from the ground”! (Genesis 4:10) The Jesuit Institute South Africa strongly condemns the deplorable violence, thuggery and looting which has taken place in Johannesburg,

St. Xavier’s Vocational Institute, Jaipur was founded by George Peter, SJ and was started in the year 2006 in the main city of Jaipur to support the marginalised and underprivileged sections of the society.

Focused on discernment, depth, action and mission,the third in a series of Laudato si’ Spirituality for Action workshops organised by the Jesuit Conference Asia Pacific-Reconciliation with Creation (JCAP-RwC) recognised the need to discern for action on several levels,

This readiness for commitment is usefully synthesized in the final chapter of the Instrumentum Laboris(IL), which sums up the challenges and hopes of a prophetic Church in the Amazon basin. The horizon within which it moves,

“In looking ahead, it’s good to look back”! says Kenneth Simalalo SJ, Head Teacher of Loyola Jesuit Secondary School, Malawi, as he reflects on the last ten years which led to the recent graduation of a class of young men and women who will go on to shape the future.

In a bid to curb pollution and meet the daily energy needs St. Britto High School, Mapusa, Goa has installed one of the biggest and first of its kind grid connected rooftop solar power plant in Bardez Goa.

Lately, forest fires in the Pan-Amazonian region reached extremely serious dimensions. The events elicited reactions from many different countries all over the world, and governments expressed their concern and demanded the local governments in the region to take action.

A young Jesuit volunteer was killed while serving as a teacher in a community high school in Pangantucan, Bukidnon in the Philippines. On August 23, Genefir Buckly and fellow Jesuit volunteer Ann Kathleen Gatdula were attacked and stabbed by a man they caught stealing in their quarters.

Over the past year, Fridays for Future, a global student movement started by Swedish student Greta Thunberg, has grown to include hundreds of thousands of students around the globe. The movement invited others to join with them in a series of actions during the week of September 20-27, 2019,

On September 16, the General Assembly of the UN met to discuss issues of global concern. In the following weeks, several summits like the Climate Action Summit on September 23, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on September 24 and 25, and the High Level dialogue on Financing for development, among others, took place.