SJES ROME

Growing up, living a true and genuine personal relationship has always been part and parcel of my experience in my family and with my friends.

In line with the second Universal Apostolic Preference–walking with the excluded, the poor, the outcasts, those whose dignity has been violated, in a mission of reconciliation and justice–Sanata Dharma University (SDU), the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Asia Pacific (AJCU-AP), and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently hosted a webinar on Detention in Asia and the Pacific.

In the sweltering mid-October heat of Matobo, one of Zimbabwe's hottest and driest districts, Spiwe Moyo tended her ripening tomato crop. Nearby, underneath a baobab tree, a few emaciated donkeys and a small herd of skinny cattle take shelter from the blazing sun. Along with the onions, vegetables and green beans grown by other communal farmers as part of the Evergreen Community Market Garden,