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This continuation of last week’s article, “Unity in Diversity -– God’s Way of Farming” highlights the Jesuit Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre’s (KATC) active involvement in the Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI), focusing on agroecology’s pillars of social justice, environmental protection, and economic viability. It explains the SKI Community of Practice, and its promotion of Indigenous seeds, biofertilizers, and local markets, while also addressing the development of responsible governance structures. As SKI steadily grows into a movement led by farmers, it aims to strengthen sustainability, foster collaboration, and drive positive change through local initiatives and youth leadership.

It is a question of working to establish lasting peace in the Congo, founded on democratic values and absolute respect for human dignity, rooted in faith and hope in the Risen Lord, Conqueror of violence and death.

I ask myself sometime when will this suffering end? When will South Sudanese become one people and work together for their development? The desire to serve God and His people that pushed me to join religious life few years ago is kind of renewed desire every time I get to witness or hear these painful stories.

I am Bèterbèteon Charles SOMDA, a Jesuit from Burkina Faso. I am currently on a mission in the Central African Republic. I am involved in several educational and social activities with the youth and students of the city of Bangui.

8 March is an important day for the rights of all women in the world, but today is a special day for Eveline in particular: today she opened a small business in Chad, while her 7-year-old daughter goes to school for the first time.

I am privileged to have participated in the AJAN HIV and AIDS Prevention Programme for the Youth (AHAPPY), facilitated by a competent and professional team from the African Jesuits AIDS Network (AJAN). The programme hosted by the Arrupe Jesuit University Community was one of a kind.

My name is Mwansa Chalo, a young African economist and entrepreneur participating in the Economy of Francesco 2022 event in Assisi, Italy. Looking back to this morning’s encounter with Pope Francis, I am hearing the words of the disappointed disciples who met the risen Lord reverberate in me

As a young person in our parish, although not aware, the late Fr. Xolile Keteyi SJ helped us through his homilies and catechesis -especially during our preparation classes for the sacrament of confirmation - to make sense of the injustices that were around us at that time.

Our work for the benefit of the population is essentially based on a series of studies conducted to understand the population, the events and the context and to collect the needs, priorities and concerns of this population in order to transform them into a series of actions...

Growing up, living a true and genuine personal relationship has always been part and parcel of my experience in my family and with my friends.