Advocacy

Pope Francis decries the imprisonment of Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Alvarez and the expulsion of dissidents, and appeals to political leaders to open their hearts to truth and justice and engage in dialogue.

Set on the lands of the Hohokam peoples and the Akimel O’odham nation (known today as Scottsdale, AZ) more than 60 educators and ministers from across the Ignatian network in the U.S. gathered for conversations around the intersections of Ignatian spirituality and antiracism at the first Ignatian Spirituality and Antiracism Gathering.

The earthquake that struck the area between Syria and Türkiye seems to have spared nothing and no one.

On 6 February Syria and Türkiye were hit by two catastrophic earthquakes that have claimed the lives of thousands of people. In response to the rising death toll and devastation left behind, Jesuit Mission Australia has launched a Syria Earthquake Response Appealto provide immediate assistance to those people most affected living in Aleppo.

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.

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.

We share the statement of the Jesuit Province of Peru, in relation to the high political tension and violence in the country in recent weeks.

Since the coup in February 2021, which returned Myanmar to military rule, more than a million people have fled the country as refugees, hundreds of thousands more have been internally displaced, villages have been burned to the ground, thousands of children have been killed, and many places of worship have been destroyed.

The Jesuit Migrant Service for Costa Rica has rejected, in a statement, the announcement by the country's President Rodrigo Chaves about taking measures to prevent "economic migrants" from continuing to use the figure of political refugees to stay in the territory. We share the statement.

In a letter the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development commemorates his confrères murdered on the night of 16 November 1989 at the Central American University of the Society of Jesus in San Salvador: "Their lives and deaths inspire our mission".