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Arrupe International Residence (AIR) in Manila is home to 56 Jesuits representing 17 different nationalities. The community produces 15 – 20 kilos of organic scraps daily suitable for composting. Composting is part of the community’s commitment to the environment,

John K. Guiney SJ was appointed to coordinate a three-year project promoting a “consistent culture of protection” in the Society of Jesus. John Says, “The project will involve two stages. Firstly, the current global situation will be mapped and assessed;

My thoughts are with the hundreds of thousands in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi who have been affected by Cyclone Idai over the past week. The devastation this storm has caused deserves the attention and support of the international community to rebuild.

Three Jesuit organisations, the Justice and Ecology Office of JCAM, the Nairobi-based Jesuit Hakimani Centre and the Jesuit Mission Office in Nurnberg, Germanycommissioned a research to study correlations between tax and poverty.

On February 23, thirteen Honduran human rights defenders were imprisoned because of their legitimate defence of the drinking water in fourteen communities. Community leaders and organizations who have demanded that the Municipal Government

The Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region is scheduled in October 2019 on the theme Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecologyand seeks to address the environmental and social degradation faced throughout the territory that is home to over three million Indigenous Peoples.

A protest that started with a 15-year-old Swedish girl who refused to go to school unless politicians start “prioritizing the climate question” has snowballed into a global movement fueled by children who want their adults to take urgent action on the changing climate.

In an interview, Fr Hans Zollner SJ, the director of the Child Protection Centre at the Pontifical University of Gregorian and a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, who helped prepare the meeting of the Presidents of Bishops’ Conferences on abuse and child protection in Rome at the end of February says,

A 2-day international conference from March 7-9 in the Vatican reflected on how the world’s religions can help in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the United Nations member states set in 2015 to be achieved by 2030.

On February 14, the Jesuits at Mount Street hosted an important conference exploring how orders and institutions within the Catholic Church can promote clean energy for a zero-carbon future. Key speaker Lorna Gold, Coordinator of the Laudato Si' Project at Trocaire and Vice Chair of the Global Catholic Climate Movement,