2019

On 11th and 12th of June 2019, all roads for a moment led to HIPSIR for a two-day conference. The turnout was impressive: 500+ participants representing different constituencies and social interests.

In 1980s the Irish Jesuits decided to start a Jesuit community in Churchill Park, Portadown in Northern Ireland, just simply to be a presence to the beleaguered people who lived there and who suffered from poverty and sectarian violence.

In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated 24.9 million men, women and children were living in modern slavery on any given day in 2016 according to the Global Slavery Index 2018. The region had the highest number of victims across all forms of modern slavery, accounting for 73 per cent of victims of forced sexual exploitation,

On Tuesday 11th June we ended the 8th meeting of the COMPARTE network with a happy heart (as the Tseltal people say). Sixty people from social centres, producer communities, CPAL, universities and foundations from 10 countries in Latin America, the United States, Canada, Spain and Kenya,

The Jesuit conference for Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) and Justice and Ecology Office, in Partnership with the Rwanda Religious Leaders Forum (RRLF) and other likeminded youth organization from the East Africa Community region is organizing, a Pan-African youth roundtable summit in Kigali Rwanda.

After five decades of neoliberal policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, the growth of inequality and poverty is scandalous. While financial capital increases, human rights are violated and millions of human beings are denied a dignified life.

Guillermo Otano, from the Spanish NGO Alboan, has been appointed by Frank Janin SJ, President of Jesuit Conference of Europe, as the new coordinator of the GIAN - Justice in Mining Network. The network began in 2010 in Ranchi, in India, and since expanded all over the world.

The Jesuits in Honduras are denouncing the Honduran government’s repression of protests over the past two months. The protests have been triggered by the government’s privatization initiatives.

At the initiative of SJES, a 13-member Ignatian/Jesuit delegation took part part in the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, between July 9 and 18, 2019, in New York. Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus,

On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat at the Curia of the Society of Jesus in Rome, we invite the former secretaries to share their views and reflections. They tell us about what caught their team’s attention when they were leading the apostolic secretariat of the Society and the challenges they perceived for the social and ecological ministry then and now.