January, 2026

On January 25, 2019, the collapse of a tailings dam at Vale S.A.’s Córrego do Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, resulted in 272 fatalities. The majority were workers—employees of Vale and its contractors—caught in one of the deadliest workplace tragedies in recent history...

MP Mathai’s reflects on Nonviolent/Compassionate Communication as a powerful means of transforming violence by reconnecting people with their innate capacity for compassion...

Across the territory of the Jesuit Conference of European Provincials (JCEP), Jesuit works are increasingly called to respond to situations of deep social exclusion, forced migration, and environmental degradation...

In September 2025, Joe Munnelly, Communications and Research Officer with Irish Jesuits International, visited some of the projects funded and assisted by IJI in South Sudan. He was deeply touched by the people he encountered and the work he witnessed...

Pope Leo XIV invites the faithful to pray for Christian unity and for peace, especially in our time marked by a lack of respect for human dignity and heightened international tensions...

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, Archbishop of Washington and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark, had recently signed a joint statement “Charting A Moral Vision of American Foreign Policy”.The three cardinals urged the Trump administration to step back from foreign policy strategies and goals that threaten world peace...

The turning of the year prompts us to look back and look forward. In JCFJ in 2025 we were delighted to deliver a special issue ofWorking Notes dedicated to marking the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking Laudato Si’ and to follow that up with an issue focusing on the ethical and policy dimensions of food...

Students from the Big Apple are helping their friends in the Andes mountains learn English, connected by a common faith, a common language, and Jesuit education on the margins...

For the Justice in Mining network, 2025 has been a year of transitions and small steps forward that give us reason to remain hopeful. Hope is more necessary than ever in a world marked by growing political polarization, the return of geopolitics, climate denialism, and hate speech against migrants and refugees. In our last post of the year, we invite you to look back on some of those moments: the darkest ones, but also those that light our way...

In collaboration with the Food Security Program of Jesuit Social Service, this activity aimed to strengthen farmers’ skills, particularly in soil preparation, soil care, and biodiversity management, to help increase productivity. The formation went beyond agricultural techniques...