SJES ROME

The Jesuit conference for Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) and Justice and Ecology Office, in Partnership with the Rwanda Religious Leaders Forum (RRLF) and other likeminded youth organization from the East Africa Community region is organizing, a Pan-African youth roundtable summit in Kigali Rwanda.

After five decades of neoliberal policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, the growth of inequality and poverty is scandalous. While financial capital increases, human rights are violated and millions of human beings are denied a dignified life.

Guillermo Otano, from the Spanish NGO Alboan, has been appointed by Frank Janin SJ, President of Jesuit Conference of Europe, as the new coordinator of the GIAN - Justice in Mining Network. The network began in 2010 in Ranchi, in India, and since expanded all over the world.

The Jesuits in Honduras are denouncing the Honduran government’s repression of protests over the past two months. The protests have been triggered by the government’s privatization initiatives.

At the initiative of SJES, a 13-member Ignatian/Jesuit delegation took part part in the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, between July 9 and 18, 2019, in New York. Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus,

On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat at the Curia of the Society of Jesus in Rome, we invite the former secretaries to share their views and reflections. They tell us about what caught their team’s attention when they were leading the apostolic secretariat of the Society and the challenges they perceived for the social and ecological ministry then and now.

Jesuit Missions will be joining the Climate Coalition and thousands of individuals from across the UK on the 26th June to lobby our MP’s to tell them that the UK can no longer contribute to climate change and the destruction of our common home.

The initiative #CaminosdeHospitalidad was launched last May. This activity is part of the Hospitalidad (Hospitality) campaign fostered by the Society of Jesus. Their goals are is both to highlight the causes which are forcing millions of people each year to migrate and demand policies ensuring equality,

Jesuits and partners from around the world joined the call to take action for water on World Water Day. Ecojesuit sought water pledges from colleagues around the world and many expressed solidarity in caring and defending this resource that is fundamental to all life and human dignity.

With photographs by Michael Collopy accompanied by intimate stories and poetry written by former gang members, the book gives a look into the services Homeboy Industries provides, including tattoo removal, job training, substance abuse treatment, mental health care and legal assistance.