New Director of GIAN Integral Ecology Initiative and new SJES Advisory Committee
Roberto Jaramillo, SJ, Secretary for Social Justice and Ecology, has announced the appointment of Fr. SM John Kennedy, SJ, to lead the Jesuit Integral Ecology Initiative (EcoJesuit) within the Global Ignatian Advocacy Network (GIAN). John Kennedy, a Jesuit priest from the Madurai Province in India, is currently the Province's Delegate for Education and the Jesuit Conference of South Asia's Delegate for Ecology. We extend a warm welcome to John Kennedy.
We are deeply grateful to Fr Pedro Walpole, SJ, of the Philippine Province, for his dedicated leadership of GIAN-Ecojesuit over the past seven years. We look forward to his continued advocacy on social and environmental justice.
Fr General Arturo Sosa updated the composition and size of the SJES Advisory Committee. The new members took up their responsibilities at the end of October: Sister Daphne Sequeira, RSCJ (from India), Mr. Christopher Kerr (Director of the Ignatian Solidarity Network in the USA), Fr José Cecilio Magadia (Assistant to Fr. General for Asia and the Pacific) and Fr José Alberto Mesa (Secretary to Fr. General for Secondary and Pre-Secondary Education). We thank them for their availability to take on this ministry.
We remain deeply grateful to the former members of the SJES Advisory Committee - José Yuraszeck, SJ (Chile), Ludovico Lado, SJ (North-West Africa), Mr. Luis Arancibia (Spain) and Mrs. Sue Martin (Australia) - and pray God's blessings upon them and their ongoing work.
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