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The zero-tolerance policy that resulted in children being separated from their parents during the summer of 2018 incited rightful outrage from many people around the world. However, families have been and continue to be separated at the border due to a variety of practices that do not honor the right of families to remain together,

The Mission’s original policy, For the Greater Good, in place since 2013, has been completely revised with the help of the templates for child safeguarding developed by the Xavier Network for Mission and Development. Given its extensive engagement with college level students, and growing commitment to the Spiritual Exercises,

Guillermo Otano Jiménez from Foundation ALBOAN NGO (Spain) and Justice in Mining Jesuit Global Advocacy Network Coordinator, together with Javier Lautaro Medina from CINEP / Peace Program Jesuit Foundation in Colombia visited the JESC team and gave an account of their visit to Brussels.

For nearly a half century, the Catholic Church in the United States has celebrated National Migration Week, which is an opportunity for the Church to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, including immigrants, refugees, children, and victims and survivors of human trafficking. The theme for National Migration Week 2020,

From its founding in 1971 by Br Robert Mittelholtz SJ, a Canadian missionary, Jesu Ashram has had one focus: caring for those who are excluded by society. Every initiative of the health care facility has been for poor, marginalized, destitute people.

Statement of the Netwok of Jesuit Social Centers in Latin America and the Caribbean Regarding the wave of social protest and our continent’s weak democracies, December 2019. During the second semester of 2019 Latin America has been in a state of economic, political and social turmoil.

An Irish parish group which has linked up with a Jesuit parish in Zambia by feeding children and supporting their school is facing major challenges due to its success. The parish of Star of the Sea in Sandymount has been supporting the development of St Mary’s Community School in Matero, a Jesuit parish.

The Conference of Jesuit Provincials of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Central American Jesuit Province and the Association of Universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America have joined in condemning the Nicaraguan government for escalating violence in the country.

Child sexual abuse is a growing concern in Vietnam. In the last three years, an average of 1,000 child sexual abuse cases were reported every year. Roughly one child was sexually abused every eight hours. In 2017, the Vietnamese Jesuit Province issued guidelines on the protection of children, adolescents, youth and vulnerable adults, and a protocol on child sexual abuse.