2022

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that DACA, which has been in place since June of 2012, is unlawful. This decision comes months after an appeal was filed by the federal government in response to a similar ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen in Texas in July of 2021.

Last year, our team at the Jesuit Conference was invited by the Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) to produce a video introducing folks to the legacy of the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador. These six Jesuit priests and two of their companions were brutally murdered by government forces in El Salvador on the campus of the University of Central America (UCA) in 1989, casualties of the Salvadoran Civil War.

In preparation for the General Assembly of the Federation of Catholics’ Bishops Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) in February 2023, a Preparatory Event entitled Our Ocean Home will be held online on 28 to 30 November 2022, together with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

On November 8, "La Jornada Internacional, Mujeres en Marcha" [Women on the Move, an International Conference] organised by Alboan, Entreculturas, Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes [Jesuit Migrant Service] and the Fundación Ellacuría will take place at Arrupe Etxea (Padre Lojendio, 2) in Bilbao.

A tide of solidarity with migrants and refugees swamped Pamplona on October 12, the day memorialised the forcibly displaced. The memorial day for accompanying the forcibly displaced was jointly promoted by the NGO Alboan, the Colegio San Ignacio,and the Centro Loyola de Pamplona.

Through 11 petitions, collected in the manifesto 'Sanas y Salvas', girls from Guatemala, South Sudan, Spain, El Salvador, Peru, Honduras, Kenya, Nicaragua and Chad are mobilising to defend the effective protection of their rights.

Honduras is a very vulnerable country. Honduran men and women suffer the impact of this vulnerability on a daily basis. Socio-economically, my country is one of the most unequal in the world. Politically, it is burdened by the burdens of the 2009 coup d'état, such as institutional fragility, corruption, drug trafficking, impunity and the illegitimate re-election of the previous government.

The effects of climate change are increasingly tangible, severe and widespread. Almost 8 million people have been displaced from their homes, and over 1,500 have died due to the recent floods in Pakistan. The last European summer was among the warmest on record.

Through the analysis of different documents and studies in the most different countries of our continent, the Integral Ecology Group of the Network of Social Centres of the Conference of Provinces for Latin America and the Caribbean (CPAL) noted an absence of technical and conceptual subsidies that address the environment and systemic corruption.

Sahabat Insan, the Jesuit centre for migrant workers in Jakarta, has helped raise USD 80,000 to provide infrastructure and facilities support to Sister Laurentina SDP who runs an office and shelter for victims of human trafficking in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara province.