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On November 18, from 15:00 to 16:30 CET, the Jesuit European Committee for Primary and Secondary Education (JECSE) and JESC will host an online webinar titled “Advancing Sustainability in Jesuit Schools – Designing the ecological transition as a common challenge

We should not need a special day to encourage us to eradicate poverty in Australia. Poverty is more than a problem to be studied. It wears the face of people whom we meet in the street, through the Vinnies, and whom we see sleeping on the streets. Poverty could wear the face of ourselves, of our children.

Speaking from the Jesuit Secretariat for Social Justice and Ecology in Rome, he outlines a coordinated plan toward COP30, urges pre-COP influence on NDCs, and stresses four priorities: debt relief, a stronger loss-and-damage mechanism, a just energy transition, and food systems grounded in sovereignty and agroecology.

The Letters to Earthcampaign, promoted by Fe y Alegría International through its Comprehensive Ecology Initiative, has mobilized thousands of children and adolescents in 11 countries in the same cry: climate justice as an inescapable ethical and political imperative.

The Super-Horta project, developed by Paróquia de São Francisco Xavier de Caparica and Agrooxy, aims to address food insecurity in remote areas such as refugee camps through a portable aquaponics system. This innovative solution focuses on local food production, education, and sustainability to provide nutritional support to needy communities while minimizing the logistical challenges associated with food supply.

In the strategic plans and work proposals of the networks and educational institutions promoted by the Society of Jesus, the importance of research, reflection and systematization of educational action is always mentioned as a necessary route to know the reality of the training processes and their impact, with the aim of intervening in their transformation and innovative qualitative improvement...

Last year, the JCAP Flagship Project organised an ecospiritual retreat held in Sepang for young parishioners of St Francis Xavier Church in Petaling Jaya. Inspired by their retreat experience, some of the youth have since launched ecological programmes...

As the world prepares for COP30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil, the Society of Jesus — together with Fe y Alegría and global Ignatian networks — presents the Liturgical and Prayer Guide for the Jesuits for Climate Justice: Faith in Action at COP30...

“Besides spreading the message of the Encyclical, it is now more important than ever to return to the heart. In Scripture, the heart is not only the center of feelings and emotions, but the locus of freedom. (…) The heart is the place where external reality has the greatest impact, where the deepest searching takes place, where the most authentic desires are discovered, where one’s ultimate identity is found, and where decisions are formed. It is only by returning to the heart that a true ecological conversion can take place”...

On this Jubilee Year dedicated to Pilgrims of Hope, JRS invites you to welcome refugees and migrants and the gifts they bring us.