March, 2023

“The best thing at school is studying," says Sulendra, a 16-year-old student at the Jesuit-run Masi Marsal (Light of the Messiah) High School, in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand, India.

Jesuit social apostolate encompasses a wide spectrum of activities and engagements ranging from works of charity to taking sides in solidarity with historically marginalised peoples and their struggles to bring structural and systemic change for a more just and humane society.

Jesuits throughout the Americas are demanding justice for two Mexican Jesuits who were murdered last June in Cerocahui, Mexico. Eight months have passed since their deaths, but the perpetrator, a notorious local cartel leader, has still not been apprehended.

This week the Chair of Hospitality was held in Rome as a space of formation. It explores the ethical, anthropological and juridical bases of the hospitality advocated by various actors of the Church and society with migrants.

Some of the main Jesuit partner organisations and networks of the Jesuit Network with Migrants at the Conference in Canada and the USA have issued a public statement expressing their concern about the practices and policies of the Biden Administration that restrict the real and effective possibility of accessing the right to asylum. As the Jesuit Migrant Network, we take this statement as our own and ask you to help us to disseminate it.

On Thursday 9 March, the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice ran a climate workshop for people who work in the Jesuit Curia offices in Milltown Park. Drs Ciara Murphy (Environmental Policy Advocate) and Kevin Hargaden (Director and Social Theologian) led the process.

The Jesuit Province of Southern Africa, through the Jesuit Centre for Ecology and Development, has responded by mobilizing teams and resources to respond to this disaster.

On March 11 and 12, at the headquarters of the Instituto Educacional Amazônia Pará (IEAP), in Furo dos Chagas, in the Marajoara region between Amapá and Pará, another round of training took place in the Projeto Guardiões Ambientais Ribeirinhos, with the theme "Integral Ecology and Living Well" as the initial module.

It was a momentous gathering that brought together Province Social Delegates from various regions across Africa and Madagascar, with the aim of strengthening JENA's collective effort to build the Conference, as well as plan towards the universal mission of the Society.

Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA) participated at the 3rd Edition of the West Africa Peasant’ Seed Fair held in the Dom Elder Camara farm located in Zoungbonou in the community of Houéyogbé, Benin Republic from 9th to 11th March 2023.