SJES ROME

I am not a specialist on climate matters or, for a matter of fact, on any matter particularly. So how on earth did I become the Ecology Advocacy Officer at the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC)?

On 18 October 2023, Fe y Alegría in Ecuador held the opening event to mark 60 years of service to education. More than 700 people from different parts of the country gathered to commemorate the important date.

What is the message and call of Laudate Deum for our context in Asia Pacific today? This was the question that guided the online panel discussion on 8 November hosted by the Reconciliation with Creation network.

Young university students from the biology course at San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca are demanding that government authorities take action to put out fires, mainly in protected areas in the north of the country.

14 November is the anniversary of the birth of Father Pedro Arrupe (1907). The Pedro Arrupe Institute of Political Formation in Palermo, Sicily (Italy), is an example of this influence.

We all work in the same field, but in very different social, cultural and legal contexts. Like all similar meetings, these were a very enriching three days.

Ecojesuit, the Global Ignatian Advocacy Network on Ecology, the Social Justice Ecology Secretariat, and over 100 members of the Ignatian Family comes together in this collective statement for the human family and care for the Common Home.

The Victorian Government’s appointment of an Independent Review Panel to deliver its commitment to raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 is a positive step towards effective and evidence-based justice reform.

A Catholic leader in South Africa, a country where mineral wealth long has been an economic mainstay, says that today the Church in his country often encounters “the suffering face of Christ in sick mine workers.”

In OCTOBER's edition of the AJANEWS issue, they basically focus on the community being the center of care and support for young people living with HIV.