November, 2022

Last week Jesuit Mission held their latest webinar - Water the Gift of Life, about the uplifting impact of the Water Project in empowering rural communities in Timor-Leste. The webinar welcomed special guests and project partners of Jesuit Mission, Fr Júlio Sousa SJ, Director of Jesuit Social Service (JSS) Timor-Leste and Jose Da Costa Pereira Soares, the Program Manager Assistant of the Water Project, who both spoke about the importance of handing over the project to local leaders.

Forest land in Madagascar is increasingly shrinking. According to Global Forest Watch, from 2001 to 2021, Madagascar lost 4.36Mha of vegetation cover, which is equivalent to a 25% decrease in vegetation cover since 2000, and 2.14Gt of CO₂eq emissions.

Bharat Jodo Yatra(BJY) is a mass movement started by theIndian National Congress that aims to unite the country against the fascist politics of the rulingBharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The First National Afro Brazil - SJ Meeting took place in Fortaleza (CE) between 21 and 23 October, a critical moment for discussing developments in the collective construction of antiracist actions in Jesuit works, besides strengthening the Afro Brazil SJ Articulation and its organisational and strategic identity.

On the last day of our 7-11 November 2022 Continental Assembly in Bogota, as is customary in the meetings of the Jesuit Network with Migrants, a proposal for a communiqué was presented and approved. It was worked on throughout the week, especially in the last few days, by a commission representing the network's three regions (CANA, SURAM and CARIBBEAN) and our continental dimension.

The webinar promoted by the European Alliance Laudato si' proposes ideas and solutions to optimise the role of the Church in the context of the environmental crisis. The President of the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA), Fr Charles Chilufya SJ: "We live on a limited planet, but our hearts are infinite".

In a letter the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development commemorates his confrères murdered on the night of 16 November 1989 at the Central American University of the Society of Jesus in San Salvador: "Their lives and deaths inspire our mission".

On a day like today, 115 years ago, Pedro Arrupe, the 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, was born in Bilbao (Spain). His life made a great impression on many Jesuits and non-Jesuits because of his deep commitment to "faith and justice" and the stakes he took from this motto.

he Jesuit Network with Migrants gathered from 7-11 November. It was their first in-person Continental Assembly after almost three years. The network of about 90 people from the Americas and other territories met in Bogotá, Colombia.

The book of interviews on ecology was launched on Wednesday, 9 November, with interventions by former President Michelle Bachelet, Minister of Environment Maisa Rojas, and the Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Chile, Gabriel Roblero SJ.