SJES ROME

"We don't want to take sides, we simply want to enlighten people through texts and enable them to start talking one day soon"

It is a question of working to establish lasting peace in the Congo, founded on democratic values and absolute respect for human dignity, rooted in faith and hope in the Risen Lord, Conqueror of violence and death.

We hope that relative calmness and efforts for peace continue to be reinforced so that the dream of so many South Sudanese like the late Bishop Paride Taban and Poepe Francis is achieved.

This reality takes a lot of energy from each of us. Much of our time is spent addressing problems that do not exist in other parts of the world.

Jesuit Network with Migrants Central America and North America (RJM CANA) shared the first four months of the year report (January – April 2024): "They have been months of a lot of work to face the challenges in the migration context characterized by an increase in the migratory flow in vulnerable conditions throughout the region, however, also These have been months in which the fruits of networking have been confirmed".

One year, after the people of Sudan were plunged into extreme humanitarian emergency following the outbreak in mid-April 2023 of fierce fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), JRS and several Christian organisations, have published a statement regarding the situation.

Paglaum is the project proposed by Dulungan Youth to the Reconciliation with Creation network program in Asia Pacific Conference. Here is the progress of this project aimed at conducting a writing workshop to prepare young people to communicate the forest conservation efforts of the indigenous communities of Central Panay Mountain Range.

From April 5 to 7, the Jesuit Radio Network in the Dominican Republic met at the facilities of the Loyola Polytechnic Institute (IPL) in San Cristóbal. During the meeting, the construction of a shared itinerary that seeks to focus on collaboration and contextualized radio communication marked by the Apostolic Preferences approved by the Society of Jesus for the coming years was highlighted.

The worldwide network of Jesuit organisations, Xavier Network, involved in responding to humanitarian crises around the world, expressed shock at the April 2 killing of 7 aid workers delivering essential food aid. "We cannot be silent." Xavier Network joined the global Jesuits' call for "an immediate ceasefire, for negotiations and for the beginning of a process that will bring freedom, liberty and justice for all in the Middle East, the only road to true peace."

Addressing hope amidst the Palestinian experience is a weighty task, especially when your community is enduring such atrocities.