SJES ROME

The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Centre A.C. celebrates 35 years of promoting and defending human rights in Mexico.

From 15 to October 19, some 70 people from 32 organisations linked to the Red Jesuita Con Migrantes(RJM) [Jesuit Network With Migrants] met in El Salvador.

In this newsletter we hear from our partners in Africa and Asia about the ways in which people they work with are denied the most basic right of education and why they have made education a priority for their work.

The Jesuits in Europe, through the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC) in coordination with Jesuit Missions UK and the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and in collaboration with Ecojesuit, launched the COP28@Home ‘Together for Climate Justice’ campaign.

From 16th October 2023, The Institute of Daughters of Mary Help of Christians held a three-day seminar on Sexual Abuse and HIV/AIDS.

In response to a rapidly changing Philippine society, the social apostolates of the Philippine Jesuit Province gathered for a colloquium on Developing Ignatian Spirituality in the Social Apostolate from 19 to 21 October in Tagaytay City.

The Society of Jesus endorses the Pope’s unconditional call for peace.

Ignatius Ismartono SJ is the Director of Sahabat Insan (Friend in Humanity), an apostolate for Indonesian migrant workers and victims of human trafficking.

Michael Campbell-Johnston SJ, the second Secretary of the Social Apostolate at the General Curia (1975 – 1985), said the “last amen of his life and the first alleluia of his eternity” on October 12.

Tragically, the stories shared by these African girls are not unique. Globally, 15 million adolescent girls have endured forced sex at some point in their lives, according to a report by the U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children.