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Forced displacement is rarely a temporary phenomenon. On the contrary, many people live in precarious situations for years, or even decades, after becoming displaced.

The Ignatian Solidarity Network is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Robert M. Holstein Faith Doing Justice Award—Ellie Hidalgoand Jack Raslowsky. Both awardees will be honoured at ISN’s annual award event, Ignite: A Celebration of Justice, to be held this year at Xavier High School in New York City.

The platform nosomosexpedientes.mx is a digital space that provides relatives of missing persons with helpful tools and valuable information for following up on their investigation and interaction with the public prosecutors' offices.

After the severe earthquake on the night of Feb. 5-6 that struck Syria and Türkiye, the situation remains dramatic. The Cathedral in Iskenderun has collapsed. Bishop Paolo Bizzeti SJ, Bishop of Anatolia in Eastern Türkiye, was out of the country at the time but is organising help. Antuan Ilgit SJ is on the spot and is organizing relief for his parishioners.

On December 20, at the Forum Saint-Michel in Brussels, JRS Belgium held, in partnership with the Centre Avec, a round table on its monitoring work carried out within closed centres.

Jesuit Refugee Service Nigeria supports the businesses of internally displaced women through Village Savings and Loan Associations.

We share this good news from Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes Argentina, an apostolic work specialising in the accompaniment of migrants and refugees in the Province of Argentina-Uruguay.

To all people of goodwill: On 1 February, we remember the second year when military forces, the Tatmadaw, brazenly seized power in Myanmar, suppressed the democratically elected government of the people, and imprisoned their democratic leaders.

RAOEN shares the document Listening to Indigenous Peoples and Talking as Church from Where We Are.

"Utterly terrifying" -stories from Bangladesh