SJES ROME

In the present issue of Promotio Iustitiaeon Indigenous Rights and Integral Ecology, keeping the Synod on Amazon at the background, Jesuits from 5 Conferences, accompanying the indigenous people over many years have reflected on the Indigenous Rights and Integral Ecology from the perspectives of justice and reconciliation.

As part of our ongoing celebration of the half-century anniversary of the Secretariat for Social Justice and Ecology at the Curia of the Society of Jesus in Rome, we have invited the former secretaries to record their thoughts on being part of 50 years of services by SJES.

To hear, see and act, more than 150 people gathered in one of the auditoriums of the Salesian Polytechnic University. The idea came from the Hogar de Cristo Housing Corporation, a work that animates, coordinates and directs the Society of Jesus in Ecuador,

The Kino Border Initiative (KBI) was awarded a grant for educational programming, and Father Sean Carroll, SJreceived an honorary degree for his work with the KBI. Valley Leadership Youth Grant: The Valley Leadership Youth Grant was given to support Kino Teens educational programming.

The crisis of credibility that the Chilean church is experiencing and that has also hit the Society of Jesus hard, as a result of the sexual abuse committed by priests, has pushed us to review and reflect on the causes of the loss of credibility and trust in the institution.

On 11th and 12th of June 2019, all roads for a moment led to HIPSIR for a two-day conference. The turnout was impressive: 500+ participants representing different constituencies and social interests.

In 1980s the Irish Jesuits decided to start a Jesuit community in Churchill Park, Portadown in Northern Ireland, just simply to be a presence to the beleaguered people who lived there and who suffered from poverty and sectarian violence.

In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated 24.9 million men, women and children were living in modern slavery on any given day in 2016 according to the Global Slavery Index 2018. The region had the highest number of victims across all forms of modern slavery, accounting for 73 per cent of victims of forced sexual exploitation,

On Tuesday 11th June we ended the 8th meeting of the COMPARTE network with a happy heart (as the Tseltal people say). Sixty people from social centres, producer communities, CPAL, universities and foundations from 10 countries in Latin America, the United States, Canada, Spain and Kenya,

Jabhat alNusra, the same that ruined the church, and, most sadly, killed Father François in June 2013. Then FatherFrans in April 2014. Why? This same question stayed in my head for months after I heard about his assassination.