August, 2025

We publish the latest statement from A Jerusalem Voice for Justice: an ecumenical witness for equality and a just peace in Palestine/Israel, a collective of Christians who are experiencing firsthand the war in Palestine and Israel...

On August 20, 2025, Israeli forces stormed Gaza City, where nearly one million displaced civilians had sought refuge, many already starving. Two days later, on August 22nd, the United Nations declared a famine. By then, the damage was done: 273 people had already died of starvation, including 112 children. The declaration was not a warning, but a grim confirmation of what humanitarian organisations have been saying for months: Gazans have long endured a deliberate descent into starvation...

In response to Brazil’s worst mining disaster in 2015, the FEI Research Group on the Social License to Operate was formed to investigate the social and environmental impacts of mining on vulnerable communities. Their groundbreaking research in the Amazon, particularly in Parauapebas, revealed how economic dependence masks low community trust and perceived injustice, highlighting the urgent need for inclusive decision-making and genuine corporate responsibility in extractive industries.

Misleading information about the causes and consequences of climate change obstructs effective policy responses. This Summary for Policymakers summarizes findings from the larger Synthesis Report “Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review” (SR2025.1)...

“Nagmapu ta müli ta ngen, müli ta trayenko, müli ta llufüngechi ko, müli ta tren tren, müli ta lavken, müli ta degün, rangi wenu mapu müli ta wangülen, müli ta antü, müli ta küyen, vil ta kisuengun, kisu ta mülelayengün, vil ta niengun ta ngen” (On earth there are Ngen. There are waterfalls, deep waters, the sea, sacred mountains, volcanoes, stars in the middle of the sky, the sun, the moon. No one is alone; nothing exists in solitude; everyone has a Ngen)

The downstream effects of the greed of the Global North are rarely seen by the individuals who contribute the most to the high volume of waste. The reality is that countries in the Global South must deal with the industrial production and waste generated by the Global North. Governments are not effectively addressing these impacts, so people have taken it upon themselves to collect and sort waste for economic survival...

How seriously do you take the environmental crisis—both locally and globally? Why is the Catholic Church calling for an “ecological conversion”? And what role do the Jesuits play today, in Slovenia and around the world?