SJES ROME

As we explore different ways to share the gospel with the world, Sossai E. Lawrence SJ (PATNA) shares his thoughts on Universal Spirituality. He combines elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity in his perspective. Universal Spirituality can lead humanity toward peace, reconciliation, and hope. It emphasizes caring for our shared world, supporting one another, building relationships across different faiths, seeking truth, practicing compassion and mercy, advocating for justice, and working together to find meaning and purpose in life.

On November 18, from 15:00 to 16:30 CET, the Jesuit European Committee for Primary and Secondary Education (JECSE) and JESC will host an online webinar titled “Advancing Sustainability in Jesuit Schools – Designing the ecological transition as a common challenge

We should not need a special day to encourage us to eradicate poverty in Australia. Poverty is more than a problem to be studied. It wears the face of people whom we meet in the street, through the Vinnies, and whom we see sleeping on the streets. Poverty could wear the face of ourselves, of our children.

Speaking from the Jesuit Secretariat for Social Justice and Ecology in Rome, he outlines a coordinated plan toward COP30, urges pre-COP influence on NDCs, and stresses four priorities: debt relief, a stronger loss-and-damage mechanism, a just energy transition, and food systems grounded in sovereignty and agroecology.

The Letters to Earthcampaign, promoted by Fe y Alegría International through its Comprehensive Ecology Initiative, has mobilized thousands of children and adolescents in 11 countries in the same cry: climate justice as an inescapable ethical and political imperative.

The Super-Horta project, developed by Paróquia de São Francisco Xavier de Caparica and Agrooxy, aims to address food insecurity in remote areas such as refugee camps through a portable aquaponics system. This innovative solution focuses on local food production, education, and sustainability to provide nutritional support to needy communities while minimizing the logistical challenges associated with food supply.

James Martin SJ (UEA) shares with us how GC 32 has marked his life in different apostolic fields. The mission of the Society of Jesus today: “the service of faith, of which the promotion of justice is an absolute requirement. For Reconciliation with God demands the reconciliation of people with one another”, has been—from his novitiate to the present day of his apostolic work—the inspiration to walk alongside all those who are excluded.

In the strategic plans and work proposals of the networks and educational institutions promoted by the Society of Jesus, the importance of research, reflection and systematization of educational action is always mentioned as a necessary route to know the reality of the training processes and their impact, with the aim of intervening in their transformation and innovative qualitative improvement...

Last year, the JCAP Flagship Project organised an ecospiritual retreat held in Sepang for young parishioners of St Francis Xavier Church in Petaling Jaya. Inspired by their retreat experience, some of the youth have since launched ecological programmes...

As the world prepares for COP30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil, the Society of Jesus — together with Fe y Alegría and global Ignatian networks — presents the Liturgical and Prayer Guide for the Jesuits for Climate Justice: Faith in Action at COP30...