SJES ROME

In the wake of COVID-19, something must be done, else people in Africa will fall back into poverty and many people in Africa will fall into destitution.These are not normal times. What is needed now is not just stimulus for the markets to function as usual.

The groupings signing up a petition started by CEAR (Spanish Committee for Refugee Aid) and backed by more than 200 non-profit organizations – we among them – and almost 40 000 citizens are asking the Spanish Government to urgently start in the present context of health emergency caused by the COVID-19

Access to quality education, health and other basic services continues to be a problem in both rural and urban areas in India. In spite of numerous legislative bills that have been passed by the government to address these issues,

Promoting Reconciliation with Creation (RwC) as a shared value and priority in JCAP ministries and with its partners is a continuing narrative greatly re-affirmed by the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) issued early last year by Father General.

A Jesuit voluntary organization in Patna has distributed cooked meals to nearly 5,000 people in 13 Musahar (a dalit community) hamlets in various parts of the capital city of Bihar. The Manthan (Churning) of the Patna Jesuit Society took the initiative on April 11 in view of the nationwide lockdown to combat the spread of deadly coronavirus.

“This is a false dilemma because every serious economic thought is developed for the people, In Colombia there are right now 13 million people who cannot go out to work and are isolated at home without savings and without receiving any salary...

The pandemic has shaken the foundations on which humankind stands. Not only the human foundations have been shaken, but the economic, social, technological, cultural, political, financial and spiritual ones too.

The social sector of the Jesuit Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean organized a reflection on “The impact of Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean”. It counted with the participation as main speakers of Rosa Cañeta, economist and specialist in public policies, and Pablo Mella SJ, professor at the Pedro Francisco Bonó Insitute. You can hear it here.

This Easter the Inter-Religious Working Group on Extractive Industries invites you to encounter God through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, and in the beauty and suffering of the Amazon region and its people.

From my childhood, I used to go to the tea plantation estates along with the religious sisters for training the workers children in catechism and choir.