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In September 2025, Joe Munnelly, Communications and Research Officer with Irish Jesuits International, visited some of the projects funded and assisted by IJI in South Sudan. He was deeply touched by the people he encountered and the work he witnessed...

Pope Leo XIV invites the faithful to pray for Christian unity and for peace, especially in our time marked by a lack of respect for human dignity and heightened international tensions...

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, Archbishop of Washington and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark, had recently signed a joint statement “Charting A Moral Vision of American Foreign Policy”.The three cardinals urged the Trump administration to step back from foreign policy strategies and goals that threaten world peace...

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...

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.