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The turning of the year prompts us to look back and look forward. In JCFJ in 2025 we were delighted to deliver a special issue ofWorking Notes dedicated to marking the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking Laudato Si’ and to follow that up with an issue focusing on the ethical and policy dimensions of food...

Students from the Big Apple are helping their friends in the Andes mountains learn English, connected by a common faith, a common language, and Jesuit education on the margins...

For the Justice in Mining network, 2025 has been a year of transitions and small steps forward that give us reason to remain hopeful. Hope is more necessary than ever in a world marked by growing political polarization, the return of geopolitics, climate denialism, and hate speech against migrants and refugees. In our last post of the year, we invite you to look back on some of those moments: the darkest ones, but also those that light our way...

In collaboration with the Food Security Program of Jesuit Social Service, this activity aimed to strengthen farmers’ skills, particularly in soil preparation, soil care, and biodiversity management, to help increase productivity. The formation went beyond agricultural techniques...

Manuel Hurtado, SJ (BOL), offers a personal testimony on faith, justice, and the reality of practical atheism in Bolivia. Drawing on academic and pastoral work, he shares his encounters with people and their questions directed toward Faith that demands Justice. He says: The wound of practical atheism is real, but it can become an opportunity to proclaim a God greater than our inconsistencies: a God who is not offended by being forgotten, but who strives to return by discreet, often invisible paths. Grounded in GC 32, Ignatian spirituality, and liberation theology, he concludes that faith becomes credible only when embodied in practices of justice and care for life.

We live in an increasingly polarised world, marked by persistent inequalities, forced migratory flows and a public conversation shaped by algorithms that simplify complexity. In this scenario, questions arise that rarely find space: from where do we read social reality? Which ethical frameworks continue to operate when debate turns into noise? In this context, throughout 2025 the Secretariat for Social Justice and Ecology of the Society of Jesus placed at the centre one of the most demanding —and often least known— cores of the Church and its tradition: Catholic Social Teaching (CST).

During Christmas and New Year, when many people are suffering from hunger, cold, loneliness, and despair, and when many hearts have been hardened by hatred, violence, selfishness, and apathy, there is a greater need than ever to welcome a Savior: the Messiah, the Lord...

On this Christmas eve, we share this message from the collective: A Jerusalem Voice for Justice, an ecumenical witness for equality and a just peace in Palestine/Israel.Let us not forget that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are part of this story, and that today they have concrete faces in all those who mourn their missing and dead, suffering the injustice of a fratricidal war.

The notebook CJ 243, Faith and Justice: Celebrating Our Roots, by Patxi Álvarez de los Mozos, published by Cristianisme i Justícia, is now available for reading and download.

10 December 2025 | Nairobi — As the world marks the 77th anniversary of Human Rights Day, the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA) reflects on the enduring legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted in 1948 in the wake of global conflict and profound human suffering. Its central message—that every human being possesses inherent dignity and inalienable rights—remains as urgent today as it was then.