2019

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.

Around 220 Jesuit rights activist and their collaborators from South Asia have spent two days to review their past 50 years of commitment in social justice and seek new ways to become relevant to the marginalized. The Jesuits in Social Action (JESA) Convention 2019 was held September 26-27 at Navjivan Renewal Centre in Old Delhi.

“We grieve with the earth and the poor. We feel strongly that change and conversion will not take place without a real encounter with God, which also means encountering the poor”, expressed members of the social ministries network of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP).

The Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) launched its celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES) during the occasion of the annual meeting of the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network of Africa (JENA).

In the present issue of Promotio Iustitiaeon Indigenous Rights and Integral Ecology, keeping the Synod on Amazon at the background, Jesuits from 5 Conferences, accompanying the indigenous people over many years have reflected on the Indigenous Rights and Integral Ecology from the perspectives of justice and reconciliation.

As part of our ongoing celebration of the half-century anniversary of the Secretariat for Social Justice and Ecology at the Curia of the Society of Jesus in Rome, we have invited the former secretaries to record their thoughts on being part of 50 years of services by SJES.

To hear, see and act, more than 150 people gathered in one of the auditoriums of the Salesian Polytechnic University. The idea came from the Hogar de Cristo Housing Corporation, a work that animates, coordinates and directs the Society of Jesus in Ecuador,

The Kino Border Initiative (KBI) was awarded a grant for educational programming, and Father Sean Carroll, SJreceived an honorary degree for his work with the KBI. Valley Leadership Youth Grant: The Valley Leadership Youth Grant was given to support Kino Teens educational programming.

The crisis of credibility that the Chilean church is experiencing and that has also hit the Society of Jesus hard, as a result of the sexual abuse committed by priests, has pushed us to review and reflect on the causes of the loss of credibility and trust in the institution.