2019

Three Jesuit organisations, the Justice and Ecology Office of JCAM, the Nairobi-based Jesuit Hakimani Centre and the Jesuit Mission Office in Nurnberg, Germanycommissioned a research to study correlations between tax and poverty.

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the social apostolate, throughout this year the Conferences of Provinces of Latin America will be celebrating events to look back at the history of the social apostolate in the region,

On February 23, thirteen Honduran human rights defenders were imprisoned because of their legitimate defence of the drinking water in fourteen communities. Community leaders and organizations who have demanded that the Municipal Government

The Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region is scheduled in October 2019 on the theme Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecologyand seeks to address the environmental and social degradation faced throughout the territory that is home to over three million Indigenous Peoples.

A protest that started with a 15-year-old Swedish girl who refused to go to school unless politicians start “prioritizing the climate question” has snowballed into a global movement fueled by children who want their adults to take urgent action on the changing climate.

In an interview, Fr Hans Zollner SJ, the director of the Child Protection Centre at the Pontifical University of Gregorian and a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, who helped prepare the meeting of the Presidents of Bishops’ Conferences on abuse and child protection in Rome at the end of February says,

A 2-day international conference from March 7-9 in the Vatican reflected on how the world’s religions can help in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the United Nations member states set in 2015 to be achieved by 2030.

On February 14, the Jesuits at Mount Street hosted an important conference exploring how orders and institutions within the Catholic Church can promote clean energy for a zero-carbon future. Key speaker Lorna Gold, Coordinator of the Laudato Si' Project at Trocaire and Vice Chair of the Global Catholic Climate Movement,

Xavier Jeyaraj SJ, the Director of Jesuit Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat - Rome, spoke at Jesuit parishes and schools about Ignatian leadership. In speaking to young people at schools and to groups in parishes Fr Xavier emphasized that we all have the potential to be leaders in today’s challenging climate, but that involves having the courage to say truth to power.

On March 1stJesuit European Social Centre (JESC) welcomed the first fellows of the European Leadership Program (ELP). The director of JESC, Fr. Peter Rožič says, “These young people will play a leadership role with strong spiritual and ethical values rather than personal ambition.