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This readiness for commitment is usefully synthesized in the final chapter of the Instrumentum Laboris(IL), which sums up the challenges and hopes of a prophetic Church in the Amazon basin. The horizon within which it moves,

“In looking ahead, it’s good to look back”! says Kenneth Simalalo SJ, Head Teacher of Loyola Jesuit Secondary School, Malawi, as he reflects on the last ten years which led to the recent graduation of a class of young men and women who will go on to shape the future.

In a bid to curb pollution and meet the daily energy needs St. Britto High School, Mapusa, Goa has installed one of the biggest and first of its kind grid connected rooftop solar power plant in Bardez Goa.

Lately, forest fires in the Pan-Amazonian region reached extremely serious dimensions. The events elicited reactions from many different countries all over the world, and governments expressed their concern and demanded the local governments in the region to take action.

A young Jesuit volunteer was killed while serving as a teacher in a community high school in Pangantucan, Bukidnon in the Philippines. On August 23, Genefir Buckly and fellow Jesuit volunteer Ann Kathleen Gatdula were attacked and stabbed by a man they caught stealing in their quarters.

Over the past year, Fridays for Future, a global student movement started by Swedish student Greta Thunberg, has grown to include hundreds of thousands of students around the globe. The movement invited others to join with them in a series of actions during the week of September 20-27, 2019,

On September 16, the General Assembly of the UN met to discuss issues of global concern. In the following weeks, several summits like the Climate Action Summit on September 23, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on September 24 and 25, and the High Level dialogue on Financing for development, among others, took place.

Around 220 Jesuit rights activist and their collaborators from South Asia have spent two days to review their past 50 years of commitment in social justice and seek new ways to become relevant to the marginalized. The Jesuits in Social Action (JESA) Convention 2019 was held September 26-27 at Navjivan Renewal Centre in Old Delhi.

“We grieve with the earth and the poor. We feel strongly that change and conversion will not take place without a real encounter with God, which also means encountering the poor”, expressed members of the social ministries network of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP).

The Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) launched its celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES) during the occasion of the annual meeting of the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network of Africa (JENA).