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On the last day of our 7-11 November 2022 Continental Assembly in Bogota, as is customary in the meetings of the Jesuit Network with Migrants, a proposal for a communiqué was presented and approved. It was worked on throughout the week, especially in the last few days, by a commission representing the network's three regions (CANA, SURAM and CARIBBEAN) and our continental dimension.

The webinar promoted by the European Alliance Laudato si' proposes ideas and solutions to optimise the role of the Church in the context of the environmental crisis. The President of the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA), Fr Charles Chilufya SJ: "We live on a limited planet, but our hearts are infinite".

In a letter the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development commemorates his confrères murdered on the night of 16 November 1989 at the Central American University of the Society of Jesus in San Salvador: "Their lives and deaths inspire our mission".

On a day like today, 115 years ago, Pedro Arrupe, the 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, was born in Bilbao (Spain). His life made a great impression on many Jesuits and non-Jesuits because of his deep commitment to "faith and justice" and the stakes he took from this motto.

he Jesuit Network with Migrants gathered from 7-11 November. It was their first in-person Continental Assembly after almost three years. The network of about 90 people from the Americas and other territories met in Bogotá, Colombia.

The book of interviews on ecology was launched on Wednesday, 9 November, with interventions by former President Michelle Bachelet, Minister of Environment Maisa Rojas, and the Provincial of the Society of Jesus in Chile, Gabriel Roblero SJ.

Upon an invitation by Fr. Angelo Munduni (sj), director of Radio Kwizera, African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) in collaboration with Radio Kwizera oversaw a successful AHAPPY TOT in Kwizera, Ngara district of Kagera province.

In its October edition, AJANEWS basically focused on raising response to a greater need for awareness on environmental conservation and means of sensitization of the importance of a greener environment to our health.

For eight months, the Jesuits in Europe, with the support of Jesuit Mission Australia, have been providing emergency assistance, shelter and opportunity to refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.

In the parish of Jesús Obrero de Los Flores de Catia, an apostolic work of the Society of Jesus, there is a constant tension to discern and operate within the horizon of the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) and the mission entrusted to it by the local Church. Such is the cross-cutting axis that runs through the parish's life and works, its raison d'être amid the complexity of this popular capital neighbourhood.