December, 2019

From its founding in 1971 by Br Robert Mittelholtz SJ, a Canadian missionary, Jesu Ashram has had one focus: caring for those who are excluded by society. Every initiative of the health care facility has been for poor, marginalized, destitute people.

Statement of the Netwok of Jesuit Social Centers in Latin America and the Caribbean Regarding the wave of social protest and our continent’s weak democracies, December 2019. During the second semester of 2019 Latin America has been in a state of economic, political and social turmoil.

An Irish parish group which has linked up with a Jesuit parish in Zambia by feeding children and supporting their school is facing major challenges due to its success. The parish of Star of the Sea in Sandymount has been supporting the development of St Mary’s Community School in Matero, a Jesuit parish.

The Conference of Jesuit Provincials of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Central American Jesuit Province and the Association of Universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America have joined in condemning the Nicaraguan government for escalating violence in the country.

Child sexual abuse is a growing concern in Vietnam. In the last three years, an average of 1,000 child sexual abuse cases were reported every year. Roughly one child was sexually abused every eight hours. In 2017, the Vietnamese Jesuit Province issued guidelines on the protection of children, adolescents, youth and vulnerable adults, and a protocol on child sexual abuse.

The Society of Jesus in Spain launches the set of actions and initiatives to be carried out during the United Nations Climate Change Conferencewhich starts today, Monday December 2nd, and lasts till Friday December 13th. A group of Jesuits and lay persons from different organizations will take part in the official programme of the Conference,

This merged session focuses on the topic Local and Indigenous Knowledge to Actionwith Pedro Walpole, Ecojesuit Global Coordinator, and Commissioner Roberto Eugenio Cadiz of the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) as key speakers.

Ecojesuit, the global ecology network of Jesuits and partners, is looking back on the year and sees a humble value in moving forward and broadening the network of reconciliation with creation, as we gather together in Mumbai, India for the 2019 Ecojesuit Annual Meeting. We are again thinking through the approach to networking as a focus for this annual meeting of coordinators,

the people’s platform that has been networking marginalized communities with civil society organizations in 13 Indian States since 2015 to restore dignity and rights to the poor, pays great attention to gender equality issues in a country where 46 per cent of the female population is illiterate,