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- Narratives: J. Stanny SJ, SHAKTI-LAHRC, Gujarat, India | (Jul-2010)
- Narratives: Danny Daly, London, United Kingdom | (Jun-2010)
- Narratives: Philip Amaral, Policy & Advocacy Officer, JRS-Europe, Brussels | (May-2010)
- Econews: Establishment of a Jesuit Mission and Ecology Task Force | (May-2010)
- Narratives: José Miguel Jaramillo SJ (province of Ecuador), Chile | (Apr-2010)
- Narrative: John Dayal, All India Christian Council | (Mar-2010)
- Narratives: Mario Serrano SJ, coordinator of Jesuit activities for Haiti in the Dominican Republic | (Feb-2010)
- Haiti: Jesuits act and reflect | (Feb-2010)
- Narrative: Amazonia is burning! Ñande rekoha )our home) is on fire! | (Dec-2009)
- Narratives: Francisco de Paula Oliva SJ, Asunción, Paraguay | (Dec-2009)
- The African Social Apostolate meeting 2009 | (Dec-2009)
- Narratives: Anne-Marie Jackson, Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice, Toronto, Canada | (Oct-2009)
- Narrative: Imp Wong, Jesuit social apostolate, East Asia and Oceania | (Oct-2009)
- Social Apostolate: East Asia and Oceania meet for the first time since 2004 | (Oct-2009)
- Narratives: Alberto Martin, Entreculturas, Spain | (Aug-2009)
- The Jesuit radio station remains independent despite threats in Honduras | (Aug-2009)
- India | (Jul-2009)
- Narratives: Ando Isamu SJ, Jesuit Social Center, Tokyo, Japan | (Jul-2009)
- Jesuits “cannot stay on the sidelines of events” in Peru | (Jul-2009)
- Immigration policy along the southern border of Europe | (Jul-2009)
- Sri Lanka: Doing all they can to prevent further bloodshed | (Jun-2009)
- Narratives: Adelaida Lacasta, Christian Life Community, Spain | (Jun-2009)
- India: Citizens get ready for General Elections | (Jun-2009)
- Narratives: Emilio Travieso SJ, Dominican Republic | (May-2009) I will never forget the day it all came together. The place: St. Martin of Porres Parish, comprising two marginalized neighbourhoods in Santo Domingo,...
- Kenya: Solidarity with Zimbabwe and DRC | (Apr-2009)
- Brazil: Indigenous people celebrate court victory | (Apr-2009)
- Côte d’Ivoire: Meeting of Francophone Social Centres | (Mar-2009)
- USA: Ignatian PeaceAction 2009 – Peace with Creation and Protection of the Poor | (Mar-2009)
- India: Communal Harmony Christmas Celebration | (Mar-2009)
- Frank Turner SJ: Emerging themes and ‘western’ frustrations | (Feb-2009)
- Xavier Jeyaraj SJ: “We are not alone in this struggle to build a better world” | (Feb-2009)
- Antoine Bérilengar SJ: Bridge-building and a missed opportunity for Africa | (Feb-2009)
- François Houtart: Positive aspects to retain from the WSF in Belém (Esteban Velásquez SJ) | (Feb-2009)
- Ignatian Day at the World Social Forum | (Feb-2009)
- A special encounter | (Feb-2009)
- A voice from British Guyana | (Feb-2009)
- Participants and organisers reflect on the Pre-Forum | (Jan-2009)
- Social march or disengaged carnival? | (Jan-2009)
- Participants introduce themselves | (Jan-2009)
- The World Social Forum is set in motion | (Jan-2009)
- Interview: We share a common present | (Jan-2009)
- Experiences of life, faith and struggle | (Jan-2009)
- Spirituality for today | (Jan-2009)
- Pre-Forum Fé’namazônia | (Jan-2009)
- Indigenous people’s participation at the World Social Forum 2009 | (Jan-2009)
- The World Social Forum at a glance | (Jan-2009)
- The Pre-Forum Fé’namazônia has started | (Jan-2009) We are on time and we are on track. The official ceremony to start the Pre-Forum Fé’namazônia full of life and colour took place on Saturday, 24 Janua...
- Our Connection with Creation: Some paradoxes | (Jan-2009)
- Creation and the Exodus: Two complementary traditions | (Jan-2009)
- Ukraine: Meeting of the Eastern European Jesuit social apostolate | (Dec-2008)
- Brazil: Fe’namazônia Pre-Forum and Ignatian Day at the World Social Forum 2009 | (Dec-2008)
- Europe/Latin America: Jesuits speak up on behalf of migrants | (Dec-2008)
- Mexico: 20 years of fighting for human rights | (Dec-2008)
- Spain: Ignatian Advocacy Workshop successfully concluded | (Nov-2008)
- Peru: 39th Congress of the International Fe y Alegría Foundation | (Nov-2008)
- Slovenia: JRS opens prayer room inside detention centre | (Nov-2008)
- India: Jesuit contribution to Orissa peace building process | (Nov-2008)
- Zimbabwe: Jesuits in the United Kingdom and Germany raise awareness and funds | (Oct-2008)
- Spain: Ignatian Advocacy Workshop gathering participants from around the world | (Oct-2008)
- Myanmar: Restoring lives after Cyclone Nargis | (Oct-2008)
- South Asia: Jesuits in Social Action unite | (Oct-2008)
- India: Thousands seek refuge from violence in Orissa and floods in Bihar | (Oct-2008)
- Democratic Republic of Congo: Workshop on advocacy in Africa | (Oct-2008)
- Latin America: Indigenous Apostolate meets | (Oct-2008)
- Mexico: Jesuits at the international AIDS meeting | (Oct-2008)
- India: Jesuit residence attacked in anti-Dalit violence | (Aug-2008) In the Kandhamal district of Orissa, a state which saw acts of violence against Christians in December 2007, fighting broke out anew on 8 July. Sparke...
- Spain: ALBOAN publishes Annual Report | (Aug-2008) In July ALBOAN, the Jesuit non-governmental organisation of the Basque province, presented its Annual Report, summarizing the work carried out last ye...
- USA: Jesuits participate in Convention for the Common Good | (Aug-2008) Two weeks ago, from 11 to 13 July, over 800 Catholics and other people of faith gathered in Philadelphia for a Convention for the Common Good, convene...
- Canada: Justice and Faith Centre's 25th Anniversary | (Jun-2008) The Centre Justice et Foi (Justice and Faith Centre) in Montréal, a major social work of the Society of Jesus in Quebec, celebrates its 25th anniversa...
- Zambia: Workshop on HIV/Aids for Jesuit parish priests | (Jun-2008) The Social Apostolate Commission (SAC) of the Zambia-Malawi Province in conjunction with the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) held a two-day worksho...
- Italy: Fr General speaks out on refugees and migrants | (Jun-2008) "If a country or a culture closes itself to other cultures, it does not have much future"-- this was one of the principal messages launched by Father ...
- Australia: Pre-World Youth Day programme in East Asia | (Jun-2008) MAGiS08, the Ignatian programme organised around World Youth Day (WYD), will gather young pilgrims between the ages of 18 and 30 from 26 countries aro...
- USA: Jesuits for human rights at Chevron stockholder meeting | (Jun-2008) Jesuits and other religious investors have asked for "a comprehensive, transparent and verifiable human rights policy" from international oil company ...
- Social Justice Secretariat | (Jun-2008) The pictures on this website were taken by Giuseppe Riggio SJ during the meeting of the coordinators of the Jesuit social apostolate in Rome, 24-31 Ma...
- Brazil: Indigenous peoples’ rights: join the Jesuit campaign | (Jun-2008) The Regional Superior of the Amazon region, Roberto Jaramillo SJ, has appealed to fellow Jesuits and the international community to join a campaign de...
- East Asia: Improving education through social projects | (Jun-2008) On May 1, Fr Dan Ross wrote the following to the editors of the East Asia and Oceania Assistancy newsletter: “For several years I have been working wi...
- Kenya: Psycho-social support by Jesuit Hakimani Centre | (Jun-2008) After the recent violence in Kenya, Jesuit Hakimani Centre (JHC), in partnership with the education department of the Catholic Diocese of Nakuru, is o...
- Social Justice Secretariat: Annual meeting of Social Apostolate Coordinators | (Jun-2008) From 26 to 31 May, the Assistancy coordinators of the Social Apostolate are in Rome for their annual meeting. Attending the meeting are Fathers Alfred...
- Haiti: Jesuit declaration exposes the full misery | (May-2008) A group of Jesuits working in Haiti has published a declaration condemning the humanitarian crisis related to food shortages in the country. The decla...
- Kenya: AJAN publishes first programme report | (May-2008) The African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) has published its first programme report about Jesuit initiatives to fight the pandemic across the continent. S...
- Colombia: Death threats against Jesuit project | (May-2008) On 10 April, the Development and Peace Programme of Magdalena Medio (Programa de Desarrollo y Paz en Magdalena Medio - PDPMM) was the second Colombian...
- India: Jesuits investigate caste violence in Tamil Nadu parish | (May-2008) Jesuit Fathers AXJ Bosco, Cosmon and Joe Xavier visited the village of Eraiyur in Tamil Nadu on 7 and 8 April. Their visit came a month after violent ...
- USA: Ignatian PeaceAction invites prayer, reflection and action for peace | (Apr-2008) The Ignatian PeaceAction is a rolling effort across the US to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. From Easter to Pentecost, various Jesuit com...
- India: Jesuit Social Apostolate of the Western Zone meets | (Apr-2008) Members of the Jesuits in Social Action (JESA) of the Western Zone met on 12-13 February at Seva Niketan, Mumbai. About 28 members from Gujarat, Bomba...
- Zimbabwe: Youth against Aids celebrate 10 years | (Apr-2008) Beauty, Blessing, Gift and Faith are the names of four among hundreds of teenagers who belong to Youth Against AIDS (YAA) clubs run by the Jesuit AIDS...
- Portugal: Fundação Gonçalo da Silveira fights indifference | (Apr-2008) Fundação Gonçalo da Silveira (FGS), the Jesuit development NGO of the Portuguese province, has launched an awareness raising campaign called "M-IGUAL?...
- Chile: Jesuit support for Mapuche people | (Apr-2008) The "Misión Mapuche Tirúa" of the Society of Jesus works among the indigenous Mapuche people in Chile, offering pastoral, social and cultural services...
- Celebration of International Women's Day at Songadh, District Tapi, Gujarat (India) | (Apr-2008) Questions before the Congregation | (Feb-2008) As we move into the decisive and crucial last weeks of the Congregation I have the feeling we are facing a set of difficult questions, or should I say...
- Networking: Ways of being local and being global | (Feb-2008) Interview with Mark Raper SJ....
- Jesuit Refugee Service: The former director reflects on its mission | (Feb-2008) Interview with Lluís Magriñà SJ....
- Benedict XVI: The Church needs you and counts on you | (Feb-2008) On 21 February, the delegates were invited to meet the Pope. The following are excerpts from his speech, in the unofficial translation provided by the...
- Ecology: Now is the time | (Feb-2008) We asked José Magadia SJ about his views on the issue of ecology, one of the "hot topics" of the General Congregation. The full interview will be avai...
- Adolfo Nicolás: the new Father General through the eyes of the delegates | (Feb-2008) "I have met Fr Adolfo Nicolás on three occasions. Here, and in Loyola in 2005, and then, in Lisbon we met once for two or three days while taking a br...
- Delegates talk about "What has struck me most" | (Feb-2008) "As the work progresses at GC, and as we present themes, share and discuss the documents, we realize that all of us here do not attach the same meanin...
- "A deep experience of freedom" | (Feb-2008) Fr José Ignacio García Jiménez SJ, a Jesuit of the Castilla Province in Spain, joined the Society in 1983 and teaches at an agricultural college in Va...
- "A oneness of purpose" | (Feb-2008) Fr Prakash Louis D'Monfort SJ is a member of Patna Province, in the north east of India, and works at the Bihar Social Institute and was previously di...
- The new face of the Jesuits | (Feb-2008) We have left the election hall a few minutes ago. I am glad to announce that we have a new Superior General of the Society of Jesus. There is immense ...
- East Asia: Shaping the future of the Social Apostolate | (Jan-2008) A consultation held at the office of the Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania (JCEAO) on 16 November included eight Jesuits, the president of th...
- Venezuela: Seminar teaches alternative forms of power relations | (Jan-2008) From 25 November to 1 December, a seminar held in Caracas was engaged in designing a programme of political and civic formation (see Headlines 2007-02...
- France: The Social Apostolate and the theme of "Tenacious Hope" | (Jan-2008) One hundred and fifteen participants took part in the annual gathering of the Social Apostolate in France on 13 and 14 October. Jesuits, lay people an...
- India: Christian Dalits have rights too | (Jan-2008) Leaders of various Christian denominations held a rally on 29 November in New Delhi to renew the demand for statutory benefits for Christians of low-c...
- Vatican: Congress raises hopes for follow-up on Populorum Progressio | (Jan-2008) The "2nd World Congress of Ecclesial Organisations Working for Justice and Peace" gathered from 22 to 24 November 2007 in Rome. This Vatican-sponsored...
- Vatican: Congress raises hopes for follow-up on Populorum Progressio | (Jan-2008) The "2nd World Congress of Ecclesial Organisations Working for Justice and Peace" gathered from 22 to 24 November 2007 in Rome. This Vatican-sponsored...
- Bangladesh: Helping the victims of cyclone Sidr | (Dec-2007) A cyclone struck a large area of southern Bangladesh on 15 November with winds of 250 kph (155 mph) and a 5-metre high sea surge, leaving a trail of d...
- Uganda: Justice and Peace Centre opened | (Dec-2007) The John Paul II Justice and Peace Centre (JPIIJPC) was inaugurated in Kampala on 10 November with a special mass. Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala, who presi...
- USA: Pro-Life and Social Justice leaders meet | (Dec-2007) The New Orleans Province was one of the sponsors of the Life and Justice Catholic Dialogue, a retreat for leaders of the pro-life and social justice m...
- Brazil: Promoting the rights of young people | (Dec-2007) Fr Geraldo Marcos Labarrère SJ has worked with youth for the last 15 years in the city of Goiânia, at the Casa da Juventude Pe. Burnier ("Caju"). Talk...
- World: World Social Forum 2008 and 2009 | (Dec-2007) In January 2008, the World Social Forum (WSF) will take place in its bi-annual decentralised form. Thousands of activities in every corner of the worl...
- USA: Jesuit Social Research Institute formed | (Dec-2007) The New Orleans Province and Loyola University have recently established a "Jesuit Social Research Institute" that will offer participatory research, ...
- Timor Leste: Being poor with the poor | (Nov-2007) A Vietnamese Jesuit priest who works in Timor Leste says evangelisation is not a matter of teaching theology but living the joys and sufferings of a p...
- India: Meeting of the social apostolate coordinators in South Asia | (Nov-2007) “I have come back enthused and much more hopeful. We shall carry on our struggle much harder and faster” said D.M. Solomon, the social apostolate coor...
- Kenya: Jesuit Hakimani Centre launches new social justice journal | (Nov-2007) Jesuit Hakimani Centre (JHC) launched a new journal Hakimani: Jesuit Journal of Social Justice in Eastern Africa (ISSN 1995-6339) on 26 October at Hek...
- Italy: Jesuit NGO raises funds through mobile phones | (Nov-2007) MAGIS, a Jesuit NGO of the Italian Province, is collecting and recycling mobile phones to raise funds for their projects. The campaign was launched in...
- Canada: New Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice | (Nov-2007) The new Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice in the CDA province (Jesuits in English Canada) was declared open on 1 October and will continue muc...
- Cambodia: Joining the Global Day of Action to ban cluster bombs | (Nov-2007) On 5 November 2007, Jesuit Service Cambodia will campaign throughout the country in support of the Global Day of Action to ban cluster bombs, organise...
- IJND: Essays to mark the fortieth anniversary of Populorum Progressio | (Nov-2007) The Irish Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, in association with the International Jesuit Network for Development (IJND), has published a collection...
- Zimbabwe: The Social Apostolate Ignatian Seminar | (Sep-2007) On 8 August, the Social Apostolate Commission of the Zimbabwe Province held an Ignatian seminar at Arrupe College, Harare. The seminar was the first e...
- India: Floods in Eastern India and the Jesuit response | (Sep-2007) Floods happen regularly in Bihar in the eastern part of India, affecting over 20 million people spread across 20 districts of Bihar. The population he...
- Europe: New Social Apostolate coordinator | (Sep-2007) The Social Apostolate in Europe now has a new coordinator; the position had been vacant for some time. Fr Brendan MacPartlin SJ has been appointed for...
- Australia: Celebrating Jesuit Social Services 1977-2007 | (Sep-2007) Jesuit Social Services (JSS) celebrated its 30th anniversary this year with a number of events, among them a Fundraising Dinner in April in Melbourne ...
- Peru: The Province mobilises all resources after the earthquake | (Sep-2007) The Development Office-Procura of the Peruvian province, together with Fe y Alegría, the Jesuit education agency, and the local Caritas, was at the fr...
- Introducing our lay partners: Ruth Zenkert - Life on the edge | (Sep-2007) We did not really plan this whole street children project. Sixteen years ago, we just started, bought a house, took in children. We are making a first...
- El Salvador: Meeting of the Social Apostolate in Latin America | (Jul-2007) "The meeting has been very positive, I would even say extremely positive." This is how Fr Fernando Franco SJ, the director of the Social Justice Secre...
- Kenya: Hakimani Economic Justice Forum | (Jul-2007) Jesuit Hakimani Centre (JHC) on 5 July launched its 2007-08 Economic Justice Forum, which aims at reviewing government budget proposals of countries o...
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Jesuit Social Apostolate in Sarajevo | (Jul-2007) At the end of May, Headlines had a meeting with Fr Ivica Hadas, who describes himself as the "representative of the charitable and social work" of the...
- Common Apostolic Discernment: Hope for a fragmented world? | (Jul-2007) "God is here, I can sense him" were the first words I wrote down in the notepad that we had been given at the beginning of the 5-day workshop in Drong...
- Democratic Republic of Congo: CEPAS conference on mining and governance | (Jul-2007) The Jesuit-run Study Centre for Social Action (CEPAS) in Kinshasa has organised a three-day conference (12-14 June) on the subject “The Lutundula Comm...
- Malaysia: Student Action for Dialogue and Peace | (Jul-2007) From 24th June to 7th July 2007, the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS/MIEC Pax Romana) is holding its International Committee meeting...
- Kenya: African Jesuit AIDS Network celebrates fifth anniversary | (Jul-2007) As the African Jesuit AIDS Network completes five years this June, it marks its anniversary with an evaluation - the first independent evaluation of A...
- Europe: Applications invited for bi-annual EUROJESS Congress | (Jul-2007) The 2007 Congress of EUROJESS, the network of European Jesuits in Social Sciences, has chosen the title “Facing unemployment: work and social integrat...
- Europa - Domande di partecipazione al Congresso biennale dell’EUROJESS | (Jul-2007) Il Congresso 2007 dell’EUROJESS – il network dei Gesuiti Europei per le Scienze Sociali – ha scelto come titolo per l’incontro che si terrà dal 28 ago...
- Books recommended | (Jul-2007) Fernando Franco SJ, Jyotsna Macwan y Suguna Ramanathan eds: El columpio de seda, el universo cultural de las mujeres intocables de la India. Edición e...
- Colombia: Elsa, Mario and don Carlos remembered | (May-2007) Ten years after the murder of Elsa Alvarado and Mario Calderón, two researchers at the Jesuit-run Centre for Research and Popular Education (CINEP) in...
- Zambia: Catholic bishops speak on constitution | (May-2007) The Zambian Bishops Conference has issued a very strong statement on the need for the Zambian Government to speed up the process of constitutional rev...
- Kenya: The Nairobi Basic Needs Basket 2006 Survey | (May-2007) The Jesuit Hakimani Centre has released the outcome of a survey titled “Nairobi Basic Needs Basket 2006” at the end of May. The objective of this surv...
- USA: New Staff Member joins Jesuit Conference USA Social and International Ministries | (May-2007) Amy Newlon joined the Jesuit Conference Social Ministries staff in Washington, D.C., on 30 May as Research Coordinator. She holds Bachelor’s and Maste...
- Madagascar: French Jesuit evicted | (May-2007) Father Sylvain Urfer SJ, of the French Province (GAL), has been evicted from Madagascar. On 11 May, after living and working on the Indian Ocean islan...
- World: The Society of Jesus and the Environment | (Apr-2007) The environment features high on the agenda for the next General Congregation (GC) of the Society of Jesus starting 5 January 2008. By 20 March 2007, ...
- Zimbabwe/United Kingdom: Praying for Peace | (Apr-2007) A special ecumenical prayer service was held in St Mary’s Cathedral, Bulawayo, presided over by the Archbishop, Pius Ncube, on 12 April. “We are here ...
- Germany: Jesuitenmission celebrates | (Apr-2007) A change at the helm of Jesuitenmission, the Jesuit Missions office in Germany, is reason to celebrate. Klaus Väthröder SJ, the incoming director, has...
- Brazil: Latin American Bishops meet in Aparecida | (Apr-2007) The Church in Latin America and the Caribbean is preparing for the 5th General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate (CELAM) to be held from 13 ...
- World: Global Warming Report | (Mar-2007) A World Bank report on the impact of global warming on developing countries, launched in February, predicts “potentially catastrophic” consequences fo...
- Kenya: Hekima College Lenten Campaign for Darfur War Victims | (Mar-2007) The Jesuit school of theology in Nairobi, Hekima College, is running a Lenten campaign to support civilian victims of the atrocious conflict in the we...
- USA: Student Gathering Addresses Poverty and Racism in New Orleans | (Mar-2007) Students from Jesuit colleges and universities from across the US gathered at Loyola University New Orleans from 9th to 11th March for an Ignatian Fam...
- Peru: Radio Based Education | (Mar-2007) To fight illiteracy in the disadvantaged urban areas of Lima in Peru, the Jesuit-inspired educational movement “Fe y Alegría” has set up a programme o...
- Capacity building in Latin America | (Feb-2007) A fresh stimulus for political and civic formation has come from the Jesuit Conference of Provincials of Latin America and the Caribbean (CPAL).
- Iraq Statement by US Jesuit Social Apostolate | (Feb-2007) On 5 February, the members of the Jesuit Commission on Social and International Ministry in the United States signed a petition on the Iraq war.
- Novartis court case | (Feb-2007) The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is taking the Indian government to court over its national patent law. Novartis has been refused a patent fo...
- Catholic migrants in London | (Feb-2007) In a ground-breaking study, the Cambridge-based Von Hügel Institute has unearthed evidence of the degrading working conditions of migrant parishioners...
- Nairobi: Pre-World Social Forum Encounter of the Ignatian Family | (Dec-2006) The World Social Forum which takes place from 20 to 25 January 2007 will be preceded by a Pre-Forum Encounter of Jesuits and Apostolic Partners - the ...
- Taiwan: Launch of eRenlai online magazine | (Dec-2006) On 1 December, Renlai monthly, a Chinese-language publication produced in Taipeh, Taiwan, launched eRenlai (www.erenlai.com), an online magazine in En...
- Italy: 25 Years Centro Astalli | (Dec-2006) On 7 December, JRS Italy (Centro Astalli) celebrated 25 years of providing services to refugees in Rome and Italy.
- Chad: Humanitarian personnel leaving the country | (Dec-2006) The months of November and December have seen an increase in the fighting between the government army and Chadian rebels has increased, compromising t...
- Mexico: Arrests and arbitrary detention in Oaxaca state | (Dec-2006) Sixty-six Mexican Jesuits, including the Provincial, Fr Juan Luis Orozco SJ, have published an open letter condemning violence in the Mexican state of...
- Profiling our partners: Carolina Tejada | (Dec-2006) My voice surges forth from Latin America full of gratitude for the opportunity to be heard by each one of you. My name is Carolina Tejada and I live i...
- South Asian Peoples' Initiatives (SAPI) in India Social Forum (ISF) Delhi. | (Nov-2006) SAPI participation in the ISF Delhi was opened officially on 9 November 2006 by Samuel and Shefali from India's North Eastern States to a background ...
- Argentina: developing new management processes. | (Nov-2006) A project named ‘Institutional strengthening of Jesuit Works in Argentina’ sponsored by MAGIS Venezuela, was started this year. Its aim is to strengt...
- Cambodia Jesuit Services. | (Nov-2006) Development work in war- torn Cambodia has been taken up by Jesuit Services, a Jesuit- sponsored NGO under the able leadership of Sister Denise Coughl...
- Madrid: precariousness of labour today. | (Nov-2006) Efforts to make employment more flexible--even wholly flexible—have characterised the new socio-economic and political paradigm of Spain, Europe and ...
- Beyond scarcity: Water for the poor | (Nov-2006) The growing gap between rich and poor, not only in income, but also in the provision of basic services comes home to us when we realise that the comb...
- Profiling our partners | (Nov-2006) This issue of Headlines introduces a new section in which lay partners who participate in carrying out the mission of the Social Apostolate offer br...
- Flash News: Africa, Mozambique, Italy, U.S., Rome, Spain | (Nov-2006) Africa: "Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise" -- the message of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) on World AIDS ...
- Guamote, Ecuador – Jesuit Indigenous Apostolate and GC 35 | (Oct-2006) The 7th meeting of the Latin America Network for Solidarity and the Indigenous Apostolate, an indigenous sub-sector of CPAL, took place in the Andean...
- Madhya Pradesh, India - Dams and displaced people | (Oct-2006) One of the most ambitious plans of the Xavier Institute of Development Action & Studies (XIDAS), affiliated to the University of Jabalpur, is a proj...
- Nairobi, Kenya – Activities planned for the Ignatian Family Encounter | (Oct-2006) Much exciting work is going into preparations for the Ignatian Family Encounter – the Pre-Forum to be held just before the start of the World Social...
- Dublin, Ireland – International Jesuit Network for Development Board Meeting | (Oct-2006) The IJND Board held a productive planning meeting from 11 to 13 October 2006 at the Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. Plans responding to the g...
- Contributing to an international debate on JRS’s mandate: Should it comprise refugees and IDPs? | (Oct-2006) One of the priorities to be discussed at the forthcoming GC 35 is the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS). Through its excellent service to refugees who cro...
- FLASH NEWS | (Oct-2006) Rome – World Food Day
- A note from the Editor | (Sep-2006) After three stimulating years as editor of Headlines the time has come for me to hand over the task and move on towards new endeavours. As I close my...
- Latin America: Education for a new political consciousness and practice | (Sep-2006) Following on a suggestion by Provincial Coordinators from Latin America and the Caribbean, about 55 Jesuits and lay partners from various social cent...
- South Asia: Civil society organises India Social Forum | (Sep-2006) Fr Joe Xavier, Social Apostolate Coordinator of Southern Asia (JESA), informs us that, as a continuation of the Social Forum process, Indian Civil So...
- Zambia, Canada, Australia: Ecology and Jesuit contributions | (Sep-2006) The following contributions describe three different ecology-related initiatives carried out by Jesuit social centres in three different regions of t...
- Flash News: India, USA, Sri Lanka, USA | (Sep-2006) Father Stan D'Souza SJ of the Calcutta Province expired at 4 a.m. on September 8 at Maison St-Ignace, Brussels. Fr D’Souza was for many years on the ...
- Middle East: A view from Lebanon | (Jul-2006) Once again the situation in the Middle East has spiralled into a cruel and deadly conflict. With little to be done in these circumstances, we wish to...
- India: Mumbai. Killing innocent passengers | (Jul-2006) Where is the Bombay I knew and loved and felt so safe in? Where as children we would play in the streets and ride public transport without adult acco...
- Canada: ecology high on the agenda | (Jul-2006) In view of the forthcoming General Congregation, the Province of Upper Canada has taken an important step towards ensuring a stronger involvement on ...
- Spain: WSF on Migrations | (Jul-2006) While the main concern underlying the whole World Social Forum process is neo-liberal globalisation, the World Social Forum on Migrations – which cou...
- Japan: Tokyo Jesuit Social Centre: 25 years | (Jul-2006) On July 8, 2006, a special event took place in Tokyo to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jesuit Social Centre. Fr Ando Isamu, director of the ce...
- Social Centres | (Jul-2006) Based on the list of centres published in 2005 by the SJS in the book “Jesuit Social Centres: Structuring the Social Apostolate”, Fr. Andreas Gösele ...
- Kenya | (Jul-2006) Elias Omondi SJ of Nairobi-based Jesuit Hakimani Centre has recently published a book titled Making Choices for Peace: Aid Agencies in Field Diploma...
- Trade talks | (Jul-2006) “Hope betrayed - churches react to collapse of trade talks” --- was the title of a press release that appeared following the suspension of the Doha D...
- Small Arms | (Jul-2006) The UN small arms review conference held 24th-27th July 2006 (see Headlines 2006/03), only the second of its kind to be called by the UN, was aimed ...
- The Amazon | (Jul-2006) According to an article that appeared recently in The Tablet, Pope Benedict XVI has given unconditional support to recent efforts by the Ecumenical ...
- US: Advocates for Immigration Reform | (Jun-2006) On the 25th of May, the US Senate passed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. In welcoming this passage the US Jesuit Conference joins ...
- Governance: A global challenge | (Jun-2006) A workshop on global governance organized by the CIDSE Global Governance Working Group and co-hosted by the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection...
- India: Delhi province consolidates social animation work | (Jun-2006) Formerly a region of Patna province, Delhi was elevated in December 2005 to Province status. In an effort to consolidate and expand the social animat...
- East Timor | (Jun-2006) East Timor in the past two months has been the theatre of increasingly violent clashes between the army and dismissed army members. Two dozen people ...
- Philippines | (Jun-2006) After two years of discussions and consultations, involving Jesuits and lay partners alike, the new policy statement of the Social Apostolate of the ...
- Madhya Pradesh | (Jun-2006) Attacks on the Christian community have registered a sharp increase in Madhya Pradesh, an Indian state ruled by a right wing party. Extremist Hindu ...
- IPC | (Jun-2006) Fr Etienne Triaille SJ will be the new coordinator of International Population Concerns, the Ignatian think tank on social issues touching population...
- India: Human rights-- a battle won | (May-2006) La Légion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour) is France’s highest civilian honour, awarded since 1802 to outstanding individuals, mainly French nationals, w...
- General Curia: Strengthening Jesuit lay partnership | (May-2006) From 14 to 20 May the Assistancy Coordinators of the Social Apostolate held their annual meeting at the General Curia in Rome. The first two days wen...
- Brazil: A presence in solidarity | (May-2006) Founded in 1967 by a community of some 20 Jesuits, CEAS, a social centre of the Bahia Province, is run today by a group of lay professionals with the...
- Jamaica: Small farmers grow | (May-2006) When Canadian Jesuits started this adventure 16 years ago together with a group of small farmers of the rural communities around Annotto Bay on the n...
- US: An industry of hope | (May-2006) At the groundbreaking ceremony held in March for the opening of the new Homeboys industries centre, founder Greg Boyle SJ (or “G” as he is affectiona...
- Headlines readers’ survey | (May-2006) Following an analysis of the replies to a survey we circulated a few months ago to Headlines’ readers we were happy to discover that over 9 responden...
- Mexico: Water, conflicts and human rights | (Apr-2006) “Water, conflicts and human rights” is an interesting and disturbing report prepared by the Monitoring and Analysis Unit of the “Miguel Agustin Pro ...
- East Asia: Mental health problems have social roots | (Apr-2006) Aware of the intertwined nature of mental health and social marginalisation, Jesuit Social Services, a Melbourne-based social centre of the Australia...
- Migrants rights: A new campaign is launched | (Apr-2006) More and more governments around the world are using detention as a migration management tool. The International Coalition on Detention of Refugees,...
- Pakistan: WSF Karachi, last but not least | (Apr-2006) The WSF Karachi, the last of the series of three polycentric events planned for 2006, took place in that city from March 24-29. Though delayed by two...
- Population concerns: The making of an international network | (Apr-2006) Fr Stan D’Souza SJ has had ten long years of experience as founder and coordinator of the International Population Concerns network. He is therefore ...
- Kenya | (Apr-2006) Mark your calendars! The International Council at its meeting in Nairobi in the month of March set the dates for the next World Social Forum, which w...
- India | (Apr-2006) Fr Prakash Louis SJ has been appointed a Member of the Steering Committee on “Empowerment of Women & Development of Children” in the Eleventh Five Ye...
- France | (Apr-2006) CERAS, the Paris-based Jesuit Social Centre, is one of the many signatories to an initiative of Christian groups aiming at raising awareness on a new...
- Arms control: the need for tougher regulations | (Mar-2006) The United Nations argues that small arms and light weapons are primarily responsible for much of the death and destruction in conflicts throughout th...
- Philippines: discernment for the present situation | (Mar-2006) In the Philippines, a threatened military coup in coordination with threats by groups determined to seize power from President Gloria Arroyo’s govern...
- DR Congo: preparing for the elections | (Mar-2006) CEPAS (Centre d'Etudes pour l'Action Sociale), the Kinshasa-based Jesuit social centre, has recently released a special issue of Congo-Afrique, the c...
- Spain: reconciliation in the Basque Country | (Mar-2006) The permanent ceasefire proclaimed on March 22 by ETA, the Basque terrorist separatist movement, could at last mark the end to the decades-long confl...
- Bolivia: social change through public influence | (Mar-2006) Institutions of the Society of Jesus engaged in bringing about a more just and equitable society at different levels and in different fields are incr...
- Malta | (Mar-2006) In a press statement announcing that cars belonging to Maltese Jesuit community of St Aloysius college were burnt for the second time in a few month...
- Spain | (Mar-2006) Entreculturas and Alboan, two Spanish development NGOs of the Society of Jesus, recently released a report on Official Development Aid for education...
- JRS | (Mar-2006) At the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) international advocacy meeting held in Rome in the past month of March, JRS agreed on six priorities for cross-re...
- Spain: A collaborative effort in development cooperation | (Feb-2006) It is a common belief that that academicians and development practitioners live in two separate worlds which only occasionally intersect. In Spain, Je...
- Tanzania: Broadcasting awareness | (Feb-2006) Radio Kwizera, run by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in western Tanzania, broadcasts to roughly 500,000 refugees in camps dotted along the Tanzanian...
- For the love of justice: Reflections on a papal encyclical | (Feb-2006) In a recent article published in The Tablet, a Catholic weekly published in Britain, Peter Henriot SJ, reflects on Pope Benedict’s encyclical Deus Car...
- Conserving the ecosystem: a millennium project | (Feb-2006) In his April 2000 Millennium Report to the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for “a comprehensive global assessment of the worl...
- Flash News: Burundi, SJS, Italy and India | (Feb-2006) Burundian Jesuit Elie Koma was killed on the night of 5 February 2006 in Bujumbura. On his way home by car he was caught in the crossfire between mili...
- WSF Caracas: Reflecting on social action | (Feb-2006) On the fourth day of the Caracas WSF there was an interesting and well-attended workshop on “The Social Action of the Church: sharing our experiences,...
- The future of the WSF: finding the balance | (Feb-2006) The four days of the Caracas Forum helped the group to experience the great variety of both participants and expectations. Radical discussions and exa...
- Mali: WSF lands in Africa | (Feb-2006) The election of Bamako as the location of one of the three polycentric World Social Forum events for the year 2006 took many by surprise. Bamako is th...
- Chad: the oil curse looms | (Jan-2006) As Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta faces a new level of violence, in neighbouring Chad, President Idriss Déby has just passed a new law on the allocati...
- India: Celebrations at ISI | (Jan-2006) The Indian Social Institute Jesuit Community celebrated the jubilee of Fathers Paul G (50years as a priest) and Tom Kunnunkal (60 years as a Jesuit). ...
- Flash News | (Jan-2006) India: In an article in The Times of India on January 7, Harsh Mander, a well-known activist in Gujarat, denounces a grave new threat that Indian trib...
- Live from theWorld Social Forum in Caracas: day 1 and 2 | (Jan-2006) From the 24 to 29 of January, Caracas (Venezuela) is playing host to the sixth Polycentric World Social Forum and the second Social Forum of the Ameri...
- Flash News | (Dec-2005)
- Europe: protecting the rights of repatriated people | (Dec-2005) In view of a forthcoming visit to the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Moroccan territory by a delegation of members of the European Parliamen...
- Australia: cruelty of death penalty | (Dec-2005) As part of a wide spread national campaign, efforts to persuade Singapore to spare the life of Van Tuong Nguyen, an Australian condemned to death for ...
- Hong Kong: civil society presence at the WTO meeting | (Dec-2005) Civil society organisations from the North and the South of the world gathered from 13–18 December 2005 in Hong Kong, China, to monitor the progress o...
- El Salvador: in memory of Fr Jon Cortina SJ | (Dec-2005) On December 11, Fr Jon Cortina SJ died of a cerebral stroke at the age of 71 in Guatemala. Born in the Basque country, Fr Cortina arrived in El Salvad...
- Kenya: Education for the ballot box | (Dec-2005) On November 21, 2005 an unprecedented and historic referendum was held in Kenya on a new draft constitution. To ensure that Kenyans would go to the ba...
- Flash News | (Nov-2005) The IJND-Governance Working Group has created a weblog to collect experiences, contributions and other inputs from its members. It hopes also to stimu...
- Globalisation: A Jesuit response | (Nov-2005) One year after its first meeting, the Task Force on Globalisation and Marginalisation established by Father General and convened by the Social Justice...
- JRS International: for 25 years where there is greater need | (Nov-2005) In this month of November the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) marked its 25th anniversary. On 14 November 1980 Fr General Pedro Arrupe SJ called on Jesui...
- India: The plight of Dalit Christians | (Nov-2005) For years Dalit Christians have been fighting a legal battle against the decision of past governments to exclude them from the benefits of positive di...
- France: Let us choose life | (Nov-2005) French “banlieues” (suburbs) have been subjected to a wave of desperate gestures: cars, gyms, community halls, theatres, schools, in other words, all ...
- France: All they want is respect and gainful employment | (Nov-2005) After three feverish weeks, France and its suburbs are back to a period of relative calm. It is still too early to assess the whole extent of the shoc...
- Floods in Central America | (Oct-2005) In the first week of October when hurricane Stan hit Central America, torrential rains provoked extensive flooding and massive landslides, hitting Gua...
- Earthquake in South Asia | (Oct-2005) The 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck the Kashmir region on Saturday morning has caused widespread devastation in Pakistan as well as in India. As ...
- Migrants deported by Spanish and Moroccan authorities | (Oct-2005) A large number of migrants and asylum-seekers are being deported by both Spanish and Moroccan authorities after having been brutally forced back while...
- SPECIAL EDITION | (Oct-2005) With this special issue of Headlines we would like to give our readers a quick update on three grave emergencies taking place in three different areas...
- Agenda | (Sep-2005) 13-16 October, Vadodara (Gujarat – India). JESA (Jesuits in Social Action) General Assembly. The General Assembly is called every three years to evalu...
- Africa – US: Oil for Africa | (Sep-2005) It is estimated that by 2015, the US will import 25 per cent of its oil from Africa’s Gulf of Guinea region. As the US increases its interest in Afric...
- Kenya: Poverty in Nairobi | (Sep-2005) According to Government estimates in Kenya one out of every two persons is poor. Furthermore, the last three Welfare Surveys confirm that poverty in t...
- Debt Cancellation—a Jubilee year? | (Sep-2005) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) took an important step forward at their annual meeting when they cancelled the huge debt...
- Zambia: 100 years of Jesuit presence | (Sep-2005) On 14 July 1905 when Fr Joseph Moreau SJ founded the first Jesuit mission in Zambia he gave life to a presence that from the very beginning sought to ...
- Africa: establishing the Social Apostolate Secretariat | (Sep-2005) The Moderator of the Jesuit Superiors of Africa is setting up a JESAM Secretariat in Nairobi (Kenya) with the task of coordinating the activities of t...
- Violence and war: An exercise in communal discernment | (Sep-2005) They are a diverse group of 45 Jesuits, religious and lay colleagues, men and women and “everyone has an amazing story to share.” They have come from ...
- Governance: Power to the people? | (Aug-2005) Over the last decade, the word “governance” has become a buzzword in the international development cooperation agenda. Good governance is regarded tod...
- The Philippines: communities manage their resources | (Aug-2005) In the Philippines, as in most developing countries, poverty is inextricably linked with environmental degradation. The task of reversing this downwar...
- India: a dream for the Indian people | (Aug-2005) “A man without a dream and a nation without a vision will perish.” Dharma Bharathi, a socio-spiritual movement of Indians committed to bringing about ...
- Europe: Christ among the excluded | (Aug-2005) Mission Ouvrière – ‘Jesuits in the popular world’ is a group of Jesuits who in their life and work share a great deal with, and are particularly sensi...
- UK: Making Poverty History | (Aug-2005) Up to 300 parishioners, students and staff from Jesuit schools and parishes took part in the mass rally in Edinburgh on Saturday, 2 July and in the ac...
- Latin America: Indigenous people and political participation | (Aug-2005) ‘The Jesuit approach to indigenous peoples’ political participation was the central theme of the 6th meeting of Latin American Jesuits engaged in ind...
- Flash News | (Aug-2005) From 14 to 16 September New York will host the opening session of the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations. A particularly important event, the...
- Dominican Republic: Against indiscriminate expulsions | (Jun-2005) Following the murder on 9 May of a Dominican citizen by presumed Haitian nationals, the Dominican authorities began the biggest mass expulsion in rece...
- Italy: Jesuit Social Network: religious and lay as partners | (Jun-2005) On June 1st, just before the start of a residential training seminar, the recently founded Jesuit Social Network Federation was officially launched at...
- Zimbabwe: Fighting poverty or the poor? | (Jun-2005) “People woke up this morning from another chilly night out in the open. Some legal house owners, who are still in their houses, have gone out of their...
- India: educating tribal communities | (Jun-2005) The work of Vishwamandal Sevashram, a Jesuit social centre of the Bombay Province, assumes education to be an essential element of social transformati...
- Bolivia: between hope and despair | (Jun-2005) More than a month after popular protests led to the resignation of President Carlos Mesa, the political atmosphere in the country may be still laden w...
- G-8 and debt cancellation: asking for more | (Jun-2005) The decision announced at the G-8 preparatory meeting of finance ministers on June 11 to cancel the multilateral debt of 18 highly indebted countries ...
- Assistancy Coordinators: the third annual meeting | (May-2005) The meeting of the Assistancy Coordinators of the Social Apostolate, held in Rome from 23-28 May, has been intense and inevitably tiring, but the atmo...
- Flash News [HL50506] | (May-2005) The United Nations country team in its March 2005 report, Recovery Framework in support of the Government of India for a post-tsunami Rehabilitation a...
- Jesuits connect on debt, trade and aid | (May-2005) “Debt and Trade: Time to make the connections” was the title of a major conference organised in September by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice i...
- Mexico: Promoting indigenous people’s rights in Chiapas | (May-2005) More than seven years have passed since the massacre of the “martyrs of Acteal”, when forty-five people were killed while fasting and praying for peac...
- Madagascar: a new social centre is inaugurated | (May-2005) The Arrupe Centre was inaugurated in Antananarivo at an impressive ceremony in May between the 12th and the 15th. This new social centre sponsored by ...
- Communities of insertion continued: Spain | (May-2005) This Jesuit community has existed in Torreblanca for more than twenty years. With its 20,000 inhabitants, Torreblanca is considered Sevilla’s poorest ...
- Flash News | (Apr-2005) * Flash News [HL50406] Belgian Jesuit missionary René De Haes, 72, was killed in Kinshasa, DRC, on the evening of May 7th. Although details are still...
- France : Work in progress for the social apostolate | (Apr-2005) There were seven main « construction sites » at the meeting of the social apostolate of the French Province, held in Lille (Northern France) in mid-Ap...
- Africa: Jesuits take a step towards peace | (Apr-2005) An enlightening and challenging experience, the Conference on conflict transformation and peace-building organised by JESAM, the Jesuit African Confer...
- Insertion communities: Zimbabwe, Peru, Brazil and France 3 | (Apr-2005) Between 1996 and 1999 I had the chance to live in the inserted community of Cergy, in a newly-built town about 40 km from Paris, France. This experien...
- Insertion communities: Zimbabwe, Peru, Brazil and France 2 | (Apr-2005) I had the chance to spend almost two years in the El Agustino community in Lima (Peru) and I now live in the Parish community of Santísima Trinidade i...
- Insertion communities: Zimbabwe, Peru, Brazil and France 1 | (Apr-2005) For me, Zambuko House (Harare, Zimbabwe) is a community of cultural insertion. An existing institution does not immediately become indigenised when a ...
- Flash News | (Mar-2005) In a letter addressed to the Superior General of the Sisters of Notre Dame, Father General expressed his condolences for the death of Sister Dorothy S...
- Canada: A Social Justice Committee is set up | (Mar-2005) In his January 2000 letter on the Social Apostolate, Fr General suggested that a Social Apostolate Commission in each Province would constitute a conc...
- Kenya: A new Jesuit information service is launched | (Mar-2005) It is with great joy that the Headlines Editorial Team announces the launch of Jesuit Hakimani Centre News, a monthly e-Bulletin of the Social Sector ...
- United States: Seattle University opens its campus | (Mar-2005) Through the month of February Seattle University’s campus became a temporary home to a group of about 100 men and women belonging to the Tent City 3 c...
- India: Befriending the trees and the UN | (Mar-2005) In a communication dated February 7, the Economic and Social Council of the UN granted the coveted Special Consultative Status to Tarumitra, a Jesuit-...
- UK: Making poverty a thing of the past | (Mar-2005) The Global Call to Action versus Poverty Campaign (GCAP) is a world-wide alliance that urges world leaders to live up to their promises and make a bre...
- Flash News [HL50204] | (Feb-2005) The Commission for Social and International Ministries of the US Jesuit Conference (JCSIM) expressed its deep reservation about the impending ratifica...
- Spain: Migration studies enter the classroom | (Feb-2005) The analysis of migratory movements, their social implications for receiving countries, the juridical frameworks that regulate them and the identifica...
- South East Asia: Update on Jesuit response to Tsunami | (Feb-2005) In Tamil Nadu the work of the Jesuits continues under the coordination of the Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation Committee (TRRC) and through the three...
- South East Asia: Update on Jesuit response to Tsunami | (Feb-2005) As the second month after the tsunami draws to a close, Fr Prakash Louis SJ, consultant to the Jesuit Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation Board (JTTRB) ...
- The fight against poverty | (Jan-2005) The advocacy agenda of civil society is focussing on one theme. Bernard Lestienne working in IBRADES and consultant to the Brazilian Bishops Conferenc...
- President Lula’s encounter with the Forum | (Jan-2005) As we write these lines on the morning of the 27th, all the Brazilians staying with us have already left; they went at 6 in the morning to be able to ...
- The Statistics | (Jan-2005) One is always struck by the numbers, by the magnitude of this event. At the first Press conference a summary of the ‘vital statistics’ of the Forum wa...
- The Inaugural ceremony | (Jan-2005) We expected long speeches…only to discover happily—we were tired—that the ceremony would be simple: a small child declared the Forum opened. No speech...
- A Latin American perspective | (Jan-2005) I marched with the white flags of Caritas Internationalis holding a banner that said: “Globalise Solidarity”. I was touched by the thousands and thous...
- The peace march: an Asian perspective | (Jan-2005) The march was scheduled to begin at 5.30 in the evening in front of the big market, which is 137 years old but recently renovated. By 3.00 in the afte...
- Meeting with Caritas Internationalis | (Jan-2005) This is supposed to be the inaugural day and we started in earnest. The first bus for the metro station left our residence at CECREI at 8 in the morni...
- Lula’s call for a fight against poverty | (Jan-2005) In a way, he did not let down his supporters. Before a crowd of about 10,000, divided in their sympathies, Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, ...
- Why a WSF? What results can come from such a large gathering ? | (Jan-2005) The answers to these questions differ according to the perspective from which they emerge. One response affirms that the WSF is ‘a tower of Babel’. Wi...
- Dignity, not harassment, in the world of labour | (Jan-2005) At this 5th WSF a new labour concept and practice have been spread abroad among sectors interested in labour issues. The workers from the chemical and...
- Importance of subsidiarity | (Jan-2005) At one of the seminars, John Cavanagh, member of the International Forum on Globalisation, defended the position that the principle of subsidiarity, s...
- SAPI “takes over” the Indian House | (Jan-2005) Emboldened by their success and after a well-coordinated strategic planning the previous night, SAPI decided to bring political and social action into...
- SAPI forcibly occupies a stall | (Jan-2005) This may well make headlines in tomorrow’s papers ! Not fiction but truth. SAPI had booked a stall in the venue through the internet, but the organise...
- The Youth Camp: entering a different sub-culture | (Jan-2005) It is located in the middle of the venue, a sprawling area full of multicoloured tents that offer free housing for about 30-40 thousand young people. ...
- Has Porto Alegre run its course as the venue for the WSF? | (Jan-2005) The morning papers were full of the news (or the rumour) that Porto Alegre will not be the venue of the WSF in 2006. It was decided some time ago that...
- The bridge between Mumbai and Porto Alegre | (Jan-2005) Today the usual morning Mass at 7.00 had a special significance. The South Asian Peoples’ Initiatives (SAPI) delegation was entrusted with the respons...
- A Popular University of the Social Movements | (Jan-2005) In the presence of the Portuguese professor Boaventura de Sousa an important panel discussion took place at the WSF. The issue under discussion was th...
- Strengthening the hope of a future Provincial | (Jan-2005) “Another word is possible”, the theme of the WSF is a challenge for our work in the future. Participation in this Forum a few days before I take over ...
- Fe y Alegria and the Forum | (Jan-2005) On Saturday 29th a group of 20 members of Fe y Alegria (FyA--Faith and Joy) from various countries met in the course of the WSF. The majority were fro...
- Access to natural resources | (Jan-2005) The famous landless movement (Movimiento sin Tierra) of Brazil invited a group of Jesuits to a solidarity-day with Latin American landless people. The...
- Tired but happy: an evaluation of the Forum and our participation | (Jan-2005) “Tired but happy” were the words used by a Mexican member of the delegation to sum up his evaluation of the Forum and our participation. The delegati...
- Programme for the future | (Jan-2005) The International Council decided at a meeting on 25th January that the World Social Forum 2006 will be realized in a phased-out manner in different p...
- Closing the Forum | (Jan-2005) For many it is sad to think that the Forum may not return to Porto Alegre again. We were surprised to learn that the closing ceremony has been schedul...
- On human trafficking | (Jan-2005) Organised by Caritas Internationalis, a full day’s panel-discussion with a large number of participants was held at the WSF on the issue of human traf...
- IJND and governance | (Jan-2005) On Sunday 30, IJND, the International Jesuit Network for Development, organised a Workshop on Governance, Democracy, and Participation. It was attende...
- Non-violence and the Forum | (Jan-2005) To what has already been said about the richness of diversity I would add that personally I have been happily surprised to see the important place acc...
- More reflections on our participation | (Jan-2005) The activities of the SAPI group were the most effective and the most ‘Jesuit’ part of the Jesuit activities at the Forum. I am a little uneasy with t...
- “The involvement of the Society of Jesus is necessary and urgent” (Chico Whitaker) | (Jan-2005) The SAPI group succeeded today in getting to interview Chico Wittaker and Oded Grajew, two members of the International Committee. Both admitted that ...
- Balance del Foro | (Jan-2005) Las 352 propuestas recibidas de los 11 ejes temáticos fueron colocadas en la ceremonia de clausura en un panel gigante. Hablando con los periodistas a...
- Evaluating the Forum | (Jan-2005) During the closing ceremony, 352 thematic proposals received so far were placed before a huge panel. Talking to newspersons before the ceremony, Chico...
- Catholic collaboration | (Jan-2005) In line with the aggregation and networking effort promoted by the WSF process, and upon the initiative of Caritas Internationalis, from July 2004 to ...
- Jesuit presence | (Jan-2005) Based on the positive experience of last year's participation in the 4th World Social Forum in Bombay, attended by a Jesuit-led delegation of almost 2...
- From debate to action? | (Jan-2005) To further facilitate networking, a convenient time will be specifically set aside during each day of the Forum for meetings and dialogues between dif...
- The Forum's new format | (Jan-2005) This thematic consultation is part of the new methodology introduced into the WSF process by the International Council (the open "governing body" of t...
- Speaking by numbers | (Jan-2005) By 25th November 2004, the final date for registration, 2560 events, including seminars, workshops and presentations, had been registered by more than...
- Celebrating the unity of the world | (Jan-2005) We are reporting live from the venue. All the participants related to the big and inter-religious Ignatian family have arrived. At the informal inaugu...
- Reporting on the 5th World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil | (Jan-2005) With this special issue of Headlines we initiate a mini series of dispatches from Porto Alegre, reporting on the 5th World Social Forum (WSF). This fi...
- Global solidarity of the Society.. | (Jan-2005) Many Provinces of the Society, even those in the poorest regions, have contributed financially to the relief operations. The general Curia in Rome has...
- Current actions and future plans (2) | (Jan-2005) .. in Indonesia and Thailand (part of the East Asia and Oceania Assistancy) As Fr Provincial A. Priyono Marwan wrote in his letter dated 30 Decembe...
- Current actions and future plans (1) | (Jan-2005) Immediately after the catastrophe struck, Jesuit individuals and communities started to provide victims with basic necessities: drinking water, dry fo...
- Bearing witness to solidarity | (Jan-2005) With this special edition of Headlines we extend first and foremost our solidarity to all those whose lives have been so tragically affected by the ti...
- Wear a white band! | (Jan-2005) A member of the Indian delegation remarked that the ceremony of tying a white band to the hand of a person was reminiscent of the festival of ‘Rakshab...
- World Campaign for the Millennium Development Goals | (Jan-2005) At a forthcoming meeting called for September 2005 in New York, the UN General Assembly is going to evaluate the performance of the Millennium Develop...
- The Japanese presence | (Jan-2005) Japanese Jesuits are represented in the group by Ando Isamu and Peter Shimokawa. Fr. Peter is deeply involved with a number of organisations working w...
- The voice of indigenous people | (Jan-2005) The indigenous movements of Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia gathered at the inaugural venue of the Forum and released the following message: “Do no...
- Can we change the world without seizing political power? | (Jan-2005) This question was discussed by Alex Callinicos, author of ‘Anti-capitalist Manifesto’, and John Holloway who published the book ‘Change the World with...
- Pre-Forum events | (Jan-2005) Two events marked the Catholic preparation of the Forum: a conference on Liberation Theology and a Seminar on Migration, both held prior to the commen...
- Cancel foreign debt | (Jan-2005) Fr. Xavier (North Brazilian Province) made a strong appeal to the whole group: “unless we are able to effect some structural changes like the cancella...
- Where are the poor? | (Jan-2005) Comparisons with the Mumbai meeting of the Forum kept returning during our sharing process. Those who had been present there said that one could not s...
- The Forum: Babel or Pentecost? | (Jan-2005) At the evening sharing session, opinions differed. Some felt that the ‘diversity’ of the interests represented at the Forum was so large that it looke...
- A moment of thanksgiving | (Jan-2005) It was the first evening that the whole group got together to share experiences of the first day. Fr. Joao Roque Rohr, Provincial of all the Brazilian...
- Flash News [HL41206] | (Dec-2004) Fr. Paul Dass SJ from the Malaysia-Singapore Region has been appointed Coordinator for the Eastern Asia and Oceania Assistancy (ASO) by Fr. Alfonso Ni...
- India: acompañando a los últimos, a los más pequeños, a los perdidos | (Dec-2004) “For the entitlement and the affirmation of Tribals in Jarkhand” reads the opening statement on the homepage of the recently launched website of AROUS...
- United States: restorative justice as Christian response | (Dec-2004) Men and women who suffer at the hands of an unjust correctional system are “holy temples behind bars,” said Fr. Provincial Tom Smolich in his homily a...
- Indonesia: a pathway to peace | (Dec-2004) How can communication and the media become instruments of peace and reconciliation? In Indonesia, a country riddled with violent inter-ethnic and inte...
- Southern Europe: developing development cooperation | (Dec-2004) In the shadow of the imposing castle where Saint Francis Xavier was born almost 500 years ago, members of the newly established Foundation “Red Xavier...
- Central America: fighting for fairer free trade | (Dec-2004) “Why we say no to the ratification of the Free Trade Agreement between Central America, the Dominican Republic and the US” is the title of a statement...
- Governance matters | (Nov-2004) How are political processes to be made more transparent, participatory and accountable? What are the ways of making sure that the voices of all, espec...
- Latin America: better education for a better world | (Nov-2004) Fe y Alegria (Faith and Joy), one of the most visible and respected works of the Society of Jesus, is a “Movement for integral popular education and s...
- Eastern Europe: bridges, not walls | (Nov-2004) The Southern Polish region of Katowice, known for its steel factories and coal mines and with an unemployment rate that soars to 30 per cent in some u...
- East Asia and Oceania: re-energizing the social apostolate | (Nov-2004) “The social apostolate is the most difficult ministry in the Society. The others may be equally demanding … but the social ministry is really the most...
- Madagascar: faith communities at the service of the poor | (Nov-2004) Andohatapenaka and Ampefiloha are two Jesuit parishes located in one of the most poverty-stricken areas of Tananarive, capital of Madagascar. At least...
- Italy: Roma people have rights | (Nov-2004) The decaying outskirts of Naples, Southern Italy, which are notorious for criminal trafficking by the “camorra”, the local mafia, have long been an ar...
- Flash News [HL41107] | (Nov-2004) Final preparations for the 5th World Social Forum to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 26 to 31 January 2005, are well underway now that the closi...
- India: A dream coming true | (Oct-2004) More than fifty people, among them fellow Jesuits, well-wishers, associates and local village heads, attended the “Bhoomi Pujan”, the ground-breaking ...
- Ecuador: the characteristics of social works | (Oct-2004) What is the essence of a Jesuit social work? In other words, how can the Jesuit perspective on faith and social justice help us identify the goal and ...
- Cameroon: Hope has a home | (Oct-2004) Listening and building relationships based on trust and simplicity form the “intervention strategies” at the Foyer de l’espérance (House of Hope), a w...
- Latin and North America. Migrants: the joint effort continues | (Oct-2004) As migrants continue to flow from Central America and Mexico towards “the north” in hope of a better life, some fifty Jesuits and their colleagues fro...
- France: Jesuits at the Social Weeks, a European collaboration | (Oct-2004) Together with 4800 other participants, about thirty Jesuits attended the centenary of the Semaines Sociales de France (Social Weeks of France) in the ...
- Flash News [HL41006] | (Oct-2004) Latin American Bishops pledged to help grass-roots groups have an effective voice in free trade agreements that are being promoted. According to a sta...
- Kenya: building local communities | (Sep-2004) Rapid urbanisation and its impact on communities, cities, economies and policies are among the most pressing issues facing the world today. The United...
- Slovenia: a “social week” in the new Europe of 25 | (Sep-2004) A few months after10 new members entered the European Union, three Jesuit networks (JRS, MOSJ, EUROJESS) convened together for the first time in Celje...
- Japan: When the bubble bursts… | (Sep-2004) The economic bubble in Japan began to grow during the Tokyo Olympics. As often happens in many of these mega events, the construction of sport complex...
- Paraguay: towering inferno | (Sep-2004) An enormous and raging fire in the Ykua Bolanos shopping centre recently took the lives of hundreds of Paraguayans, and in the days that followed thou...
- Spain: evangelisation in the light of experience | (Sep-2004) As preparation for an international congress in 2006 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of St Francis Xavier, Alboan, a Spanish NGO linked to the Soci...
- Flash News [HL40906] | (Sep-2004) Rays of Hope: Managing HIV & AIDS in Africa, a study by P. A. Mombe SJ was launched on September 2, 2004. The manual, co-sponsored by the African Jesu...
- Brazil: Sailing down the mighty Amazon | (Jul-2004) The Amazonian District (BAM) was created in 1995 by the Society of Jesus in the hope of serving this vast area of northern Brazil better. This entaile...
- Thailand: Against AIDS | (Jul-2004) “Everywhere you turned in Bangkok, there they were: Catholic nuns and Buddhist monks, church leaders and faith-based community organisers from all ove...
- Chad: Many are called | (Jul-2004) Responding to the humanitarian crisis caused by conflict in Darfur, western Sudan, and underscoring a request from the Archbishop of Ndjamena for help...
- Spain: A Parliament of World Religions | (Jul-2004) A Parliament of World Religions, based on the theme “Pathways to Peace: the Wisdom of Listening, the Power of Commitment”, was held from 7-13 July in ...
- Latin America: All coherence gone | (Jul-2004) The parish of Andahuaylillas, at a height of 3,100 metres in the Peruvian Andes, was host from 6-10 July to a meeting of 13 Provincial Coordinators of...
- Flash News [HL40706] | (Jul-2004) SJS has circulated a note to all the Assistancy Coordinators of the Social Apostolate on the humanitarian tragedy in Darfur (Sudan). The note aims at ...
- Africa: War and Peace | (Jun-2004) Africa, the world’s most pristine continent, is today ridden with conflicts and torn apart by wars Keeping in mind the cycles of violence that mar thi...
- India: Partners with the United Nations | (Jun-2004) “For the last two and a half years we have been working at it, lobbying at the UN. Finally, the accreditation is a reality”. Fr Prakash Louis SJ, Dire...
- Jesuit Refugee Service: one year later… | (Jun-2004) “It was August 1998 when I saw a group of soldiers coming towards our home. I left immediately, carrying my own two-year-old baby on my back. I took n...
- Jesuit Superiors of the Americas meet | (Jun-2004) With the aim of stimulating fruitful dialogue and deepening mutual knowledge of two often drastically differing, yet closely interrelated, realities, ...
- Philippines: Carry me back… | (Jun-2004) UGAT Foundation was established by the Jesuits in the Philippines to work with very poor families, so poor that some member or other leaves the countr...
- Spain: Civil Society and peace efforts | (Jun-2004) At the turn of the eighties, at a time when the world was still divided by an Iron Curtain and under siege of a possible catastrophic Cold War explosi...
- General Curia. Rome: Coordinators of the Social Apostolate meet | (May-2004) The Social Justice Secretariat held a meeting of Assistancy Coordinators of the Social Apostolate from 9 to 16 May 04 in Rome at the General Curia. It...
- Networks. Globalisation from the perspective of the poor | (May-2004) What have theology, analysis of grass-root narratives and Ignatian spirituality to do with one another? The Global Economy and Cultures (GEC) project ...
- India. Bhopal: Keeping tribal identity alive | (May-2004) Tribal culture and identity in India today may well disappear if the juggernaut of globalisation continues to roll on unchecked. This was the note sou...
- Migration. Peace for people on the move | (May-2004) The flow of people from one country to another, either in flight from persecution or in search of a livelihood, is one of the pressing issues of our t...
- China. Helping the helpless | (May-2004) Fr Luis Ruiz SJ, with several years of experience behind him in Macau with the handicapped and mentally ill, was on a visit to leprosy centres in Huna...
- India. A Gandhian from Belgium | (May-2004) Fr. Michael Anthony Windey SJ landed in British India in 1946, and till 1971 led the life of an ordinary Jesuit in the teaching apostolate in Bihar, f...
- Spain: Out of the mouths of babes… | (May-2004) Politicians and leaders in 105 countries came face to face with children during what has been defined the World's Biggest Ever Lobby (April 19-25 2004...
- General Curia. Official news: Creation of a Task Force on Globalisation-Marginalisation | (Apr-2004) All Provincial and Assistant Coordinators for the Social Apostolate received a few weeks ago the official communication regarding the appointment of a...
- Australia. Towards an East Asian AIDS network | (Apr-2004) What is being done about AIDS in East Asia? The Provincials of that Assistancy are today addressing this pressing question as they encourage Jesuits a...
- Europe. EUROJESS: Changing times, changing circumstances | (Apr-2004) EUROJESS (European Jesuits in Social Sciences), a network dating back to 1949, still attracts European Jesuits working in the social field today. This...
- India. New Delhi: SAPI is born | (Apr-2004) In his final address to the Convention of SAPI (South People Asian Initiatives), Fr. Joe Xavier, Assistant Coordinator for the Social Apostolate in So...
- Latin America. An ecological net | (Apr-2004) Five years ago, in 1999, a group of Jesuits and collaborators under the late Fr. Xavier Gorostiaga SJ started the Latin American Network of Ecology am...
- Italy: Jesuit Social Network: New point of departure | (Apr-2004) Towards the end of the 90s, the province of Italy, after a process of discernment, decided to concentrate its energies on three areas: the intellectua...
- India. Dhanwarkala: Hope for the Koraput tribals | (Apr-2004) It is one of the most amazing sights one can ever hope to see. After many kilometers of a winding mud road through dense forests of teak wood resplend...
- Japan: Spying on those out in the cold | (Apr-2004) The Immigration Ministry of the Justice Bureau has, according to newspaper reports appearing on February 04, set up a home page on its website invitin...
- African Jesuit AIDS Network: Whispering hope? | (Mar-2004) The African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) was set up in June 2002 by the Jesuit Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar to support Jesuits in responding...
- Indigenous peoples: First Steps | (Mar-2004) In keeping with a deep-rooted tradition of service to original inhabitants dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a new global networ...
- Europe: Faith and Politics | (Mar-2004) What authentic political response is called for in these troubling times, and how is to be a Christian one? Several Jesuit Social Centres coming toget...
- IJND: Casting the net wide | (Mar-2004) Jesuits for Debt Relief and Development (JDRAD), set up in 1998 in response to the Naples Congress of the Social Apostolate held the previous year, ha...
- United States of America: Facilitating justice, connecting for peace… | (Mar-2004) Inspired by St. Ignatius, lay people in the US are collaborating with Jesuits in gospel-based solidarity efforts to build a more just and peaceful wor...
- Abidjan: the Social Apostolate in Africa and Madagascar | (Mar-2004) At the concluding session of the meeting of Province Coordinators of the Social Apostolate and Directors of Social Centres in Africa and Madagascar a ...
- Peoples from the North-East are also part of us | (Mar-2004) Fr. Walter Fernandes S.J. was beaming at the closing ceremony of SAPI. He had brought a contingent of enthusiastic people from the 7 North Eastern sta...
- The need for local social forums | (Mar-2004) Many of the participants who spoke briefly at the closing session of SAPI emphasized the need to organise similar meetings at the state level. Some wa...
- The Tamil percussionist | (Mar-2004) We will all remember the dalit group from Tamil Nadu which, together with another cultural group from an adivasi community from North India, comprised...
- The world as mother | (Mar-2004) Francis Gonsalves S.J., a native of Mumbai who wandered through the WSF listening to numerous voices, was struck by the very many who have been left o...
- Looking at the future | (Mar-2004) All those who participated under the SAPI banner were conscious that this event could not become a passing ‘mela’ (popular fair). At the end of the cl...
- Zambia – Vatican: Shedding light on the GMO debate | (Mar-2004) In an attempt to understand better the scientific and ethical aspects of the GMO debate, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (PCJP) held an i...
- Canada. Moving with the times | (Mar-2004) The promotion of justice and the preferential option for the poor urged by GC 32 were inspiring principles that led to the creation in 1983 of the Que...
- Colombia. Peace, a learning process | (Mar-2004) Forty years of protracted armed conflict in Colombia will not have been in vain if the many significant peace and reconciliation initiatives implement...
- Italy. Politics revisited | (Mar-2004) Two different political formation initiatives currently on the agenda of the Italian Province seem to share at least two common underlying desires: of...
- India. A garden seeded with hate | (Mar-2004) Concerns about safeguarding minorities and their rights in India are rising following a series of violent attacks on members and institutions of a Chr...
- General Curia. Globalisation and Jesuit response | (Mar-2004) How can we combine the quest for the universal good with the marginalising forces of a globalisation process engulfing the whole world, and how does t...
- Some statistics | (Mar-2004) We all know or have heard that the WSF offers an incredible menu of conferences and seminars. On January 18, for example, the official programme liste...
- The WSF in Mumbai: new life to the Forum | (Mar-2004) Paul Sergio Vaillant S.J., one of the three Brazilian Jesuits participating as members of the international delegation, and a veteran of other Forums,...
- Giving voice and uncovering the suffering | (Mar-2004) One of the main characteristics of our consumerist society-- some will even add of our ‘globalised’ society-- is that it gives voice only to those who...
- Joys, hopes and a dash of disappointment | (Mar-2004) It is not easy to catch Fr. Joe Xavier for a relaxed chat: he has to give undivided attention to a constant stream of queries. He, together with Fr. P...
- What future for the WSF? | (Mar-2004) It is too early for an answer. And yet, after having taken the decision of coming to Mumbai, this question is on everybody’s mind if not on everybody’...
- Peace processes in Latin America | (Mar-2004) The peace processes in Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia was the theme of a seminar conducted by Fathers Ricardo Falla (Central America), Alfredo Zepeda...
- Working at various levels | (Mar-2004) A Jesuit from the international delegation attended a convention at a posh hotel overlooking the Juhu beach in Mumbai. The meeting, promoted by the go...
- Clearing misconceptions | (Mar-2004) Speaking about the “shining role” that India can play to strengthen civil society worldwide, the editorial piece in the Times of India of the 20th of ...
- Living as a community | (Mar-2004) The international group has settled into the tiring routine of the day. The day starts with a shared Eucharist in one of the many rooms and chapels wh...
- Closing ceremony of the World Social Forum | (Mar-2004) Speeches long and short, songs joyful and moving, crowds local and foreign-- a wonderful mix of sights and sounds marked the close of the World Social...
- Jesuit networks in Mumbai | (Mar-2004) Integrated within the structure of Southern Asia People's Initiative (the ad-hoc working group that organised the Jesuit-led delegation at the WSF), t...
- To be a Dalit today | (Mar-2004) What does it mean to be a Dalit today? Perhaps a light at the end of the tunnel of marginalisation and discrimination is in sight? For 15 long years,...
- A fight for independence | (Mar-2004) At the closing ceremony of the WSF, former president of India (and himself a Dalit ) Sri K. R. Narayanan reminded the audience that more than 50 years...
- From our ‘correspondent’ in Mumbai: being present is what matters. | (Feb-2004) Daniele Frigeri S.J., the scholastic in charge of coordinating and supporting the international delegation on behalf of SJS has already reached Mumbai...
- World Social Forum. Origins and objectives of a movement | (Feb-2004) Built around the slogan “Another World Is Possible”, the World Social Forum (WSF) is an international forum formed by people in civil society who shar...
- WSF 2004: the Indian Process | (Feb-2004) In order to ensure that the WSF process would reach out to the African-Asian region, it was decided that the 2004 meeting would be held in India. This...
- Jesuit participation in the WSF India process and in WSF 2004 | (Feb-2004) The pledge of the Society of Jesus “…to actively participate in social movements like the World Social Forum…” as expressed in the document The Social...
- WSF 2004: how does it work? | (Feb-2004) According to the information listed in the website page dedicated to the India WSF Programme, the following topics have been adopted as areas of princ...
- Brazil: forces against democracy and justice at work | (Feb-2004) Father Sergio Paulo Vaillant S.J. from Manaus writes to our Secretary that the New Year has not started with a good omen in Northern Brazil: he speaks...
- Peru: 20 years of violence unveiled | (Feb-2004) On the occasion of the Eucharistic celebration held in the Desamparados Parish in Lima on 1 January 2004, Father Ernesto Cavassa, provincial of Peru, ...
- In the midst of Jesuit tradition and history | (Feb-2004) Under the banner of SAPI (South Asian People’s Initiative), the Jesuit-sponsored delegation of about 1500 people gathered on the grounds of a Jesuit s...
- WSF: from debate to action | (Feb-2004) All the speeches at the inaugural function shared a common note: a critique of the international economic and political order. The approaches and stra...
- From Brazil to India | (Feb-2004) For Brazilian delegates Fr. Paul Sergio Vaillant S.J. and Martinus Leinz, memories of Porto Alegre and the first images of Mumbai entering their heart...
- Swirling around a utopia | (Feb-2004) It seems utterly impossible to describe the mood at the opening ceremony of the WSF. Fr. Jim Storms S.J. wrote this short but inspiring note : The im...
- No more ‘dadagiri’ (bullying) | (Feb-2004) These were the words on the front page of the Indian Express, a well-known Indian daily newspaper on the 17th of January. The warning was addressed to...
- A critical voice: whose voices are we hearing? | (Feb-2004) As someone involved in creating a network of Jesuits working with indigenous people in East Asia and in developing an indigenous theology, the Jesuit ...
- The Indian press: is India shining? | (Feb-2004) India, the host country, is also a space where one can listen to the arguments and counter arguments between those attending the WSF, and those unconc...
- Another Church is possible | (Jan-2004) “Another world is possible!” shout the crowds at the World Social Forum. Would we Christians also say, “Another Church is possible!”? And would we Jes...
- Slaughter of the Jesuits: fourteen years on… | (Dec-2003) The night of 16 November 1989: soldiers burst into the University of Central America and kill six Jesuits and two women who work there. They died beca...
- India - Prashant: fighting for peace | (Dec-2003) Prashant, meaning ‘all-pervading peace’, is a centre for human rights, justice and peace located in Gujarat, a state from which justice and peace seem...
- Mexico - PRODH and human rights: “if you prick us do we not bleed?” | (Dec-2003) The decade between 1980 and 1990 was one of the most shameful chapters of human rights violations in the history of Mexico. By way of response, a grou...
- Indonesia - Bishops’ Commission: reconciliation in times of violence | (Dec-2003) Violent conflict is beginning to spread all over Indonesia, with 42 areas averaging anywhere from nine to eleven deaths daily as militarism makes a re...
- Colombia – CINEP: from death to life… | (Dec-2003) Colombia, wracked by forty years of war between paramilitary forces and guerrilla fighters struggling to gain possession of land, is grievously weaken...
- USA: ‘SOA Watch’: when the saints go marching in ... | (Dec-2003) A group of some 600 students from Jesuit schools and colleges and a hundred Jesuits (among them the Provincial of California) joined 10,000 others in ...
- Africa - Hekima College: peace all over the land | (Dec-2003) Hekima Peace Forum, a project undertaken by a group of scholastics in theology at Hekima College (Nairobi), seeks to work for peace in all ways possib...
- Africa: Hope for the HIV-afflicted | (Dec-2003) Through a letter “Our prayer is always full of hope”, published on 1 December, World Aids Day, 600 African Bishops spoke to all those who are infected...
- Sri Lanka: crisis in the emerald island | (Dec-2003) Till 1978 the President of Sri Lanka was a ceremonial head of state while real executive power rested with the Prime Minister, but the promulgation of...
- Cancun: Jesuits at the WTO | (Nov-2003) The WTO’s Fifth Ministerial Meeting broke down on September 14; and Cancun passed into history as a site where protest was strongly made, if not duly...
- Quito: Integration, yes, but with dignity | (Nov-2003) In July 2003 a group comprising Jesuits, other religious, and lay women and men met to discuss the theme ‘Another development is possible, another int...
- Chiapas: Must education erode tradition ? | (Nov-2003) Ji’Ium Ou’inal, a place the very name of which evokes an indigenous culture, is where a group of 78 people, Jesuits and lay men and women, met in Mexi...
- Dobogokoe, Eurojess : Dreams of a United Europe | (Nov-2003) When European Jesuits in Social Science (the Eurojess) met at the end of August in Dobogokoe, Budapest, they found that 44 Jesuits from 22 provinces h...
- Toronto: Globalisation and Catholic Social Teaching | (Nov-2003) Has Catholic social teaching taken account of changes sweeping through this globalised world? How relevant are the stands we take in these new context...
- Cairo : Population, ethics and Islam | (Nov-2003) What stand should we as Jesuits take in new inter-religious, multicultural contexts where population growth surges ahead in some countries and drops d...
- Paris: CERAS centenary | (Nov-2003) CERAS ( Centre de Recherche et d’Action Sociale), the Paris- based centre for research and social action is a hundred years old, spanning the life of ...
- Education and the practice of voluntary service | (Nov-2003) ALBOAN (Educación y Voluntariado), the Institute of Human Rights Pedro Arrupe (Deusto University, Bilbao), and the Institute of Development and Inter...
- D. R. of Congo: Children, not witches | (Aug-2003) Increasingly in Kinshasa, children are bearing a new burden. A society where sorcery still flourishes readily blames children for deaths, illnesses, j...
- Venezuela-Colombia: War games for children? | (Aug-2003) Children toting guns, shooting, wounded, dying -- the conflict in Colombia makes children easy prey. Dropouts from school, they are recruited readily ...
- India: Snehasadan, abode of love | (Aug-2003) Children from all over India start life anew on the platforms of Mumbai’s Victoria Terminus. Victims of abuse, abandoned by poor migrant parents or si...
- Bolivia: Defending the world’s children | (Aug-2003) For ten years, from 1979 to 1989, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child drafted the rights of children the world over. Defence for Children Int...
- Romania: At the roots of solidarity | (Aug-2003) When communism collapsed in Romania in 1989, as it did in several countries of Central-Eastern Europe, the fragile economic structures that followed c...
- Sri Lanka: Butterflies in the garden | (Aug-2003) Will these butterflies be free of the wheel of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka? Can they perhaps bring it to a grinding halt? A miracle of healing and re...
- Zimbabwe: Open house | (Aug-2003) Zambuko House, opened by Jesuits in 1995, is a haven for youngsters in Harare, orphaned by AIDS, thrown out from overcrowded shacks, scarred by family...
- Europe: Take my hand… | (Aug-2003) Alice from Rwanda, seriously ill, entirely alone, arrives in Paris for treatment after five years in refugee camps and orphanages. She is fifteen. Aft...
- Kenya: Real life is not a movie | (Jun-2003) Film and television, capable of turning all but the most critical viewers into couch potatoes, are undermining the hold of indigenous culture on Afric...
- Spain: Searching for a better future | (Jun-2003) Across the Mediterranean Sea towards European shores the boats come daily, laden with migrants in search of a better future. Frustrated by strict immi...
- Mexico: In the beginning was the Word…. | (Jun-2003) After twelve years of work, half a million people in the State of Chiapas now have access to a Bible in their own Tseltal-Mayan language. Pursuing inc...
- Indonesia: Making waves | (Jun-2003) When a community radio station was set up in Yogyakarta by the Jesuits of the Puskat Audio-visual Studio, it was quite popular, but was closed down fo...
- Brazil: Church and State against hunger | (Jun-2003) Brazil’s ongoing, heartbreaking drama of hunger and inequity, a challenge for Christians, led the Brazilian National Conference of Bishops (CNBB) to l...
- Austria: Flexible jobs, uncertain lives | (Jun-2003) More and more jobs in Austria have become part-time, with no fixed hours, no certain income, no comforting stability. And this is responsible for the ...
- “A shelter for the roofless” | (Jun-2003) Thirty-seven to forty-five percent of the population in developing countries have no roof over their heads. Many governments, local and national, disp...
- Cameroon: “The place of justice is a hallowed place” by Marc Tapsoba SJ | (Jun-2003) As Jesuits at Libermann College with its 1,400 students, are we helping to incarnate justice in Cameroon? Great is my joy to see that the educational ...
- Indigenous peoples in East Asia: glancing back, looking forward | (May-2003) Sabah’s indigenous people recently celebrated their traditional rice festival with exuberance, thanking their rice spirit for a good harvest in their ...
- Africa: Lobbying for peace | (May-2003) Conflicts in the Middle East have overshadowed the terrible plight of people in war-torn Africa where violence and terror affect some 20 percent of th...
- El Salvador: March memories | (May-2003) March 2003 -- the tenth anniversary of the UN Truth Commission Report publishing the names of those responsible for atrocities in El Salvador in twelv...
- Belgium: Not what we do, but what we are | (May-2003) Many of the handicapped in Belgium have found places in the world of paid work, most often through alternative, publicly funded enterprises. These mak...
- India: Seeing is believing | (May-2003) How much of our desire is manufactured for us by a greedy market and an insatiable media? Is it finally a matter of perception? Perception can be shap...
- Must civilisations clash? | (May-2003) Jesuits of the Stensen Institute in Florence invited Samuel Huntington of Harvard to participate on 7 May in a debate on geo-political positions of Am...
- Jesuit social apostolate: Rising to challenges | (Apr-2003) At a first-time-ever meeting in Rome from 7-11 April, twelve Jesuit social sector co-ordinators from all ten Assistancies (groups of Provinces) got to...
- Mexico: Employers or exploiters? | (Apr-2003) What does the future look like to one million workers in Mexico, where life and labour are cheap, jobs are temporary and salaries low? “Bleak” is the ...
- Rwanda: First steps | (Apr-2003) They began modestly, offering poor youngsters some human and professional skills. The result today at the Centre Mizero (“Hope”) is a three-year tailo...
- Japan: Foxes have holes … | (Apr-2003) Homeless in Japan, a phrase that might serve as the title of a novel, captures accurately the real life fate of middle-aged men who lost their jobs wh...
- USA: Protecting unborn children | (Apr-2003) On the occasion in March of the 30th anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision that made abortion on demand legal throughout the United States, the...
- India: The mustard seed of peace | (Apr-2003) “Peace is like a planted seed,” affirms Cedric Prakash SJ. “One day it will give fruit.” Words of hope in the aftermath of violence and religious riot...
- Portugal: Jesuits, migrants and refugees | (Apr-2003) Many of those who leave their homelands for good need help. Recognising this, the Portuguese government, at the beginning of the year, appointed Anton...
- Spain: A Jesuit in jail | (Mar-2003) On the night of 19 February, Txema Auzmendi SJ was arrested along with nine other people, as part of a police operation in the Basque Country (Euskadi...
- India: Children against AIDS | (Mar-2003) A programme on HIV/AIDS awareness, conducted mostly by children orphaned by the dreaded disease, is making waves in southern India. Arulanandam Elango...
- Chad: Does oil mean development? | (Mar-2003) Will exploiting oil resources in Chad foster development in one of Africa’s poorest countries? This question was raised by the Jesuit-sponsored Centre...
- Haiti: Improving rural conditions | (Mar-2003) Among all American countries, Haiti comes last according to the UNDP Human Development Index. The majority of the eight million Haitians are employed ...
- Europe: Concern for the Gypsies | (Mar-2003) Jesuits are directing renewed attention to the plight of Europe’s most invisible minority of 12 million people, the Gypsies, people who have wandered ...
- USA: Betraying the American Spirit, by Jim Hug SJ | (Mar-2003) The “National Security Strategy of the United States of America,” issued in September 2002, is a thinly-veiled warning to the world that the current U...
- International trade: An open debate | (Mar-2003) “By fostering growth and reducing poverty, trade can contribute to development,” affirmed Pascal Lamy, the European Commissioner for Trade, interviewe...
- Political parties and civil society: the challenge of Mumbai | (Mar-2003) What is the relationship between political parties and social movements? How can and must politics accept the challenges and demands of civil society ...
- “I am because we are, and we are because I am” | (Mar-2003) Roswita Cooper, one of the three members of the World Christian Life Community (WCLC) participating in the Jesuit international delegation, writes: “...
- The voices of those struggling for dignity | (Mar-2003) We tried today to ask those struggling for dignity their opinion about the WSF. We collected some testimonies. Here are some: Kranti, 31 years old,...
- Zambia: Jesuits ruffle some GM feathers | (Feb-2003) Are the Jesuits fostering famine in Zambia? In their defence of domestic economic interests have they become insensitive to hunger? A group of America...
- Italy: A welcoming house to many | (Feb-2003) “L’AltraStrada” (Another Road), an organisation to help and support people who have entered the world of prostitution, whether by choice, necessity or...
- China: A flute for the Spirit | (Feb-2003) “Renlai,” a new Chinese magazine dealing with social concerns, culture and theology, is ready to step off the drawing board. The Chinese Province has ...
- World Social Forum: Changing the world together | (Feb-2003) More than 100,000 people participated in the World Social Forum (WSF) at Porto Alegre (Brazil, 23-28 January), the third edition of an event entirely ...
- Paraguay: Elections without dreams | (Feb-2003) “The increasingly wounding impoverishment of a large rural and urban majority of the country is an undeniable fact,” state the Jesuits in the journal ...
- Canada: Spiritual Exercises and Ecology | (Feb-2003) “We live in a time of great ecological destruction. It is also a time in which many people, especially in the West, are alienated from Creation,” said...
- 15 February 2003: YES to peace and NO to war | (Feb-2003) “Prevention is NOT always better than cure,” read a placard hanging from the neck of a young Jesuit who, in the company of hundreds of thousands, marc...
- Colombia: The Patience of a Potter | (Jan-2003) In Colombia we have spent many years registering the horrors of war and other forms of violence that are deeply rooted in our everyday lives. We have ...
- Malta: A Centre in the shipyards | (Jan-2003) Zejtun is a town in the southern part of the island of Malta, close to the factories and shipyards. In 1989, a community of Jesuits went to live in th...
- Malawi: No AIDS and no condoms | (Jan-2003) Malawi has a national HIV/AIDS policy and a strategy-framework with an agenda for action that might have been written by the Church, if we except a fe...
- Australia: Welcoming youths out of jail | (Jan-2003) Australian prison population continues to grow with a large proportion of inmates being young offenders. Many of these young prisoners often find it d...
- India: Asian Social Forum | (Jan-2003) Hundreds of small Dalit groups in colourful dresses marching peacefully to the beat of drums, shouting slogans against globalisation; mock funeral pro...
- Peru: Bishop of the poor awarded | (Jan-2003) The national Co-ordinating Committee for Human Rights of Peru awarded Luis Bambarén SJ, Bishop of Chimbote and president of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conf...
- General Curia curious about computers | (Jan-2003) Plans are being made to make better use of new information technologies at the General Curia in Rome. Father General, and all the members of the Curia...
- John Paul II, A permanent commitment for peace | (Dec-2002) “The fortieth anniversary of ‘Pacem in Terris’ is an apt occasion to return to Pope John XXIII’s prophetic teaching. Not only is it clear that his vis...
- Bolivia: Land conflicts | (Dec-2002) Control over land continues to be the central issue for the poor, especially for indigenous people. The region of Moxos situated in the Northern distr...
- India: Jesuits against fundamentalism | (Dec-2002) Violence in the name of religion is not new in India. During the last ten years, religious fundamentalism has received open political support. More th...
- Africa: Fighting HIV/AIDS, a struggle for human rights | (Dec-2002) On 10 December, International Human Rights Day, the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) was publicly launched in Lomé, Togo, during the 8th Pan-African...
- Spain: Lobbying for basic education | (Dec-2002) Entreculturas, a Jesuit-promoted development agency in Spain, Intermon-Oxfam and Action Aid have all been closely following a meeting of the Donors’ C...
- Canada: Spiritual Exercises for business leaders | (Dec-2002) Can faith and fortune mix? The crossover between spirituality and business has experienced a revival. Some corporate communities are attempting to rec...
- Indonesia: Assisting victims of terrorist bombing | (Dec-2002) After the terrorist explosion that killed more than 180 in Bali on 12 October, Ignatius Sandyawan Sumardi SJ organised a Humanitarian Volunteers team,...
- Europe: Toward a constitutional treaty | (Dec-2002) A large debate is touching the heart of Europe, the architecture of the Union and its identity. In February, the European Convention, a group of 105 e...
- USA: Letter from the Jesuit Conference to President George W. Bush | (Nov-2002) Dear Mr. President:
- Central-Eastern Europe: Economic transition to what? | (Nov-2002) It is now a decade since Eastern and Central European countries, which under Communism had a centrally planned economy, have entered the market econom...
- Kyoto and the Church | (Nov-2002) The climate is changing through human intervention. No substantial reduction of carbon emissions has yet taken place, and in Asia there were 18 times ...
- Zimbabwe: Who controls NGOs? by Edward Rogers SJ | (Nov-2002) Zimbabwe has a long-standing tradition of active non-governmental organisations (NGOs) of every type, and typically some have been receiving funds dir...
- European Social Forum: Solidarity without rhetoric | (Nov-2002) Half a million people marched for peace in Florence on 9 November, during the five-day European Social Forum, an assembly of associations and movement...
- SPECIAL: FTAA, a new Jesuit calling to global events | (Nov-2002) While the Ministers of 34 countries of the Americas met at the end of October in Quito to finalise the document on the Free Trade Area of the Americas...
- Cambodia rises to its feet, by Enrique Figaredo SJ | (Oct-2002) In December 1998, Khmer Rouge factions laid down their weapons and surrendered to the government forces, thus ending the war in Cambodia. Cambodia now...
- Iraq: Democracy by force? | (Oct-2002) Justice and Peace (France) raises questions about the legitimacy of America’s proposed war on Iraq. “Some wars break out unexpectedly,” it says in the...
- D. R. of Congo: AIDS and armed groups in Kisangani | (Oct-2002) In western Congo, various armed groups are committing atrocities and spreading terror in the town of Kisangani. Two years after the Rwandese and Ugand...
- India: Botanical research awards | (Oct-2002) Two awards for K. M. Matthew SJ, professor of botany and director of the Anglade Institute of Natural History, Shembaganur (Tamil Nadu). He has been e...
- Spain: Report on disparities | (Oct-2002) As economic wealth in the seventeen regions of Spain has increased over the last decade, so have the disparities, with most of the new wealth concentr...
- SPECIAL: The FTAA, threat or opportunity? | (Oct-2002) Trade Ministers of all the Americas (except Cuba) are meeting in Quito, Ecuador (31 October - 1 November), to continue negotiations for the establishm...
- September 11 and International Law, by Benjamin J. Urmston SJ | (Sep-2002) During the Second World War, I was in Patton’s Third Army in Europe. I emerged from the war certain there had to be a better way to deal with threats ...
- India: Forming Jesuits in Social Action | (Sep-2002) In May, 22 Indian Jesuits at various stages of formation met in Delhi for a 12-day social analysis course organised by Jesuits in Social Action (JESA)...
- Training AIDS workers in Africa | (Sep-2002) In 1995 Karen Ivantic-Doucette travelled to Africa with her husband and three sons as part of the Ignatian Associates Program, a lay formation and apo...
- Canada: Facing Cloning | (Sep-2002) “Ours is the first generation to hold the genetics of life in our hands.” The Social Apostolate Commission of the Upper Canada Province faced this new...
- France: In memory of Henri Bussery SJ, by Pierre Martinot-Lagarde SJ | (Sep-2002) Fr. Henri Bussery left us on 7 August. “Good and faithful servant,” Henri was passionate about our era. He brought clarity and accessibility to social...
- New publication: “The Common Good and Christian Ethics” | (Sep-2002) A new study revives the ancient tradition of the common good to address contemporary urban and global social divisions. David Hollenbach SJ draws on s...
- Looking back at Johannesburg | (Sep-2002) The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was many (different) things to many people. For our Jesuit delegation, it was a media event because...
- A tale of the many Summits | (Sep-2002) The World Summit on Sustainable Development was not just ten hard-fought days inside the luxurious Sandton Centre where power ruled but, in mor...
- An interim balance sheet | (Sep-2002) On Wednesday, the finalized Plan of Action was just becoming available and the Political Declaration was still in private consultations. Here i...
- How goes the snail? | (Sep-2002) “The snail is moving forward, but painfully slowly.” With this image a scientific advisor to the German government summed up the agreements on ...
- Firm to declare, weak to agree and act | (Sep-2002) Ubuntu Village, the NGO Forum at Nasrec, the new Water Dome and several other sites together seem to form a marvellous world’s fair on sustaina...
- March for Land, Justice & Peace | (Sep-2002) Saturday was marching day at the WSSD. Contrary to Thursday’s HEADLINES, there wasn’t one unified march but three or four. Eleven of our delega...
- “We cannot serve two masters, the WSSD and the WTO” | (Aug-2002) Perhaps the above cri-de-coeur allows us to interpret what is happening at the World Summit: the WSSD process is being subsumed under present W...
- Not just poverty eradication but also wealth alleviation | (Aug-2002) Yesterday’s HL may have sounded like the whining of outsiders, but today it became clear that virtually everyone, inside and out, is frustrated...
- Stewards, not owners | (Aug-2002) Archbishop Renato Raffaele Martino, permanent observer of the Holy See at the United Nations in New York and head of the Vatican delegation at ...
- Tragi-comedy, frustrations, needs and hopes | (Aug-2002) The plenary on Agriculture, perhaps the liveliest so far, was stunningly provocative. Proposals for rural development and poverty eradication -...
- “Don’t re-negotiate, just implement!” | (Aug-2002) On Monday morning 26 August 2002, the first plenary session of the World Summit on Sustainable Development heard three inspiring speeches by So...
- A world meeting, the meeting of different worlds | (Aug-2002) Nasrec, the sports and exposition complex between Johannesburg and Soweto, is where the NGO Global Forum is taking place. It’s now nearly full ...
- Jesuit Delegation at Global Forum and World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) | (Aug-2002) Around thirty Jesuits are gathering in Johannesburg (South Africa) in these days. This is how they introduce themselves to the public: “Our del...
- Difficult beginning at the Civil Society Global Forum | (Aug-2002) A few days before the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Civil Society Global Forum begins in Johannesburg. It gathers a great number...
- Struggles and the Summit | (Aug-2002) As the pre-Summit meeting of the NGO Global Forum was discussing the lack of implementation mechanisms in the draft document, the moderator int...
- Globalisation, Victims and Solidarity, by Jon Sobrino SJ | (Jul-2002) Globalisation is only partial: a few countries benefit and many are kept out. What is being globalised on a world scale is enmity: all are presumed te...
- Korea: Organic farmers crying in the wilderness, by John Jung Il-Woo SJ | (Jul-2002) From 1994 until 2002 I joined 14 families who are farming organically in a mountain valley in central South Korea. Organic farming to them means no ch...
- The Exodus story of Sudan, by Zaoro Hyacinthe Loua SJ | (Jul-2002) For many young people Sudan has become a synonym for war because of its horrible conflicts. Millions of people have died, are struggling to survive, a...
- Uruguay: Workshops for mothers in prison | (Jul-2002) Since April, the ECCA team (Continuing and Shared Adult Education) has been running workshops in the Women’s Prison. In some circumstances children un...
- India: Nectar for justice | (Jul-2002) Musahars, or “rat-eaters,” are a most marginalized Dalit group in India, mainly found in the north-east, with about 3 million in the State of Bihar al...
- Cannes Film Festival after 11 September, by Marc Gervais SJ | (Jul-2002) Until this year I had never before experienced in Cannes or any other film festival so universally shared a feeling about the world we live in. It see...
- Johannesburg Summit: Why go? | (Jul-2002) During the second half of August, HEADLINES will publish a daily bulletin written by the Jesuit Delegation at the World Summit on Sustainable Developm...
- African Jesuit AIDS Network | (Jun-2002) At their annual meeting in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) in June, in the presence of Father General, the Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar set up the A...
- Colombia / USA: Twinning for peace and justice | (Jun-2002) Roughly half of the world’s kidnappings occur in Colombia. Colombians forced to flee from violence by the guerrilla, paramilitary groups and security ...
- Italy: Battling usury and unemployment | (Jun-2002) Four thousand interventions against usury in ten years, more than four hundred in 2001 alone, guaranteed loans worth more than 7 million euro. These s...
- Brazil: Drawing near to the Amazon river people | (Jun-2002) Inspired by the mobility of the first Jesuits who, in the 17th century, worked among the indigenous villages of the Amazon district, in 1997 an itiner...
- Canada: Government puts an ear to the ground | (Jun-2002) The Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice of Toronto participated in a three-day Human Rights Consultation which the Canadian Department of Forei...
- Johannesburg Summit: Water as the common good | (Jun-2002) Water is a big item on the agenda at the Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). Once traditionally available to the poor, water is bec...
- “Pray for peace in Jerusalem” (Psalm 122,6) | (May-2002) We live within the local Christian community that has been in this Land since the beginnings of Christianity. It is our love for this Land and its two...
- East Timor: Starting with a clean slate | (May-2002) In 1999, after 25 years of Indonesian occupation during which one third of the population is believed to have perished, East Timor voted for independe...
- Italy: Who’s afraid of immigrants? | (May-2002) Immigration remains a hot theme in all of Europe. The UN estimates that in the next 50 years, 160 million people will arrive in Europe to work and com...
- D. R. of Congo: Spanish Jesuit abducted, Belgian struck | (May-2002) In northeastern Congo, the Congolese Rally for Democracy (CRD-Goma) and the Patriotic Rwandan Army are fighting for control of the area. Clashes broke...
- USA: Jesuit shareholders swing weight for Africans | (May-2002) The Jesuit Provinces of Chicago, Detroit, Maryland and Oregon, members of the US Jesuit Committee for Investment Responsibility, have filed a sharehol...
- Nepal: Quietly teaching peace | (May-2002) Some 80 per cent of Nepal’s 23 million inhabitants are subsistence farmers. For the past six years the Nepal government has faced an on-going Maoist r...
- Inter-conviviality in the former Eastern bloc | (May-2002) “Renovabis faciem terrae -- you will renew the face of the earth.” Psalm 104 provided a name for Renovabis, a German-based organisation of solidarity ...
- Johannesburg Summit: An example of misdevelopment among the Maya | (May-2002) The topic of sustainable development at the World Summit in Johannesburg in August is not just a matter of declarations, diplomats and documents, but ...
- An Open Letter to George W. Bush | (Apr-2002) Dear Mr. President,
- Venezuela: Turning a train crash to the good, by Arturo Sosa SJ | (Apr-2002) Between April 4th and 14th, Venezuelan society lived through a political shock comparable to the collision of two high-speed trains. I write a few hou...
- India: Tribals protest being cannon fodder | (Apr-2002) On 23 March 2002, about five thousand tribals belonging to seven tribes of Jharkhand State converged at Netrahat Plateau, where pilot project for arti...
- Zimbabwe: Compromise could save a nation | (Apr-2002) Presidential elections in March reconfirmed Mr Mugabe, in power since 1980, as leader of the country, but only just. According to Fidelis Mukonori SJ,...
- Spain: New magazine for us all | (Apr-2002) Two Jesuit development agencies in Spain are launching a magazine on development and popular education, called SOMOS (“we are”). The agencies are Albo...
- Madagascar: The Presidential impasse | (Apr-2002) The situation in Madagascar is increasingly worrying. The political crisis that set Marc Ravalomanana, self-proclaimed President since 22 February, ag...
- Summit of Johannesburg: No hors d’oeuvres at Monterrey | (Apr-2002) Monterrey was a unique opportunity for world leaders to spawn a new spirit of democracy, accountability and justice in global development thinking. Th...
- On AIDS in Africa, by Joe Arimoso SJ | (Mar-2002) Dark wind howls across
- “Last chance for a Latin American Argentina” by Marcos Alemán SJ | (Mar-2002) The crisis in Argentina has reached such an extreme that the Spanish Church has been collecting food to send us, and the United States, who was our fr...
- India: Gujarat in flames | (Mar-2002) The tension between Hindus and Muslims is taking on the proportions of a civil war. “Carnage in Gujarat” the Citizens’ Initiative for Justice and Peac...
- South-East Asia: Helping workers on the move | (Mar-2002) “This age of globalisation is breaking down all protection for the local economy,” says Nilo Tanalega SJ. “People are struggling to protect local indu...
- Israel/Palestine: Ambassadors of reconciliation | (Mar-2002) “Saint Paul calls us Christians to be ambassadors of reconciliation,” affirmed ten Catholic bishops from Europe and North America who met in January i...
- USA: Legal work for collective justice | (Mar-2002) David Myers SJ arrived in the Yaqui Indian village of Guadalupe, Arizona, in 1974. People there suffered from under-employment, poor education and deb...
- Johannesburg summit: “To put our world on a more durable footing” | (Mar-2002) It was in 1972 at the Stockholm conference on the human environment, that environment and development were for the first time linked. Development is c...
- Honduras: They killed our René | (Feb-2002) René Pinto was murdered on the night of January 20. Pastoral worker in the diocese of Trujillo, he was 32 years old, an outstanding organizer of Commi...
- Northern Ireland: What’s happening? by Brian Lennon SJ | (Feb-2002) Despite continuing problems on the streets of Northern Ireland, the political structures set up under the 1998 Agreement are, somewhat miraculously, s...
- Brazil: Solidarity with prisoners | (Feb-2002) On 1 January more than twenty prisoners were massacred in the Urso Branco prison in Porto Velho (Rondonia). Six prisoners had been killed the previous...
- Australia: Refugee asylum policy beware | (Feb-2002) On the 11th anniversary of the death of Fr. Pedro Arrupe, on a rainy February night in Sydney, sixty enthusiastic friends turned out to celebrate the ...
- Southern Europe: Can job flexibility and security mix? | (Feb-2002) Can a more flexible workforce also be secure? Prof. Eduardo Rojo Torrecilla of the Universidad de Girona says this is the central problem of work in E...
- Africa: Launch of a Jesuit journal | (Feb-2002) AFRICA YETU, “our Africa” in Swahili, is a recently-launched Jesuit magazine to promote and support any positive initiatives being taken to help Afric...
- World Social Forum: Monolith tumblers | (Feb-2002) In early February the Second World Social Forum took place in Porto Alegre (Brazil). After the violent G8 in Genoa, the terrorist attacks in the Unite...
- Germany: Meeting God out on the streets | (Feb-2002) Kreuzberg is a run-down district of Berlin where many drug addicts, homeless people and illegal immigrants live. A small community of Jesuits started ...
- Johannesburg: Environment and poverty are back on the front burner | (Feb-2002) Ten years after the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, which began an ambitious cycle of world conferences and summits, the World Summit on Susta...
- Europe: Becoming multicultural | (Jan-2002) Do Europeans share common values? Are values changing in Europe and, if so, towards what? Do Christian values continue to permeate European life and c...
- India: a new lioness in town | (Jan-2002) In Bihar State less than a fourth of the women can read and write their names; women of low caste, tribal women and farm labourers are victims of a ce...
- International stamina for justice | (Jan-2002) Jesuits for Debt Relief and Development (JDRAD) began in 1998 as an international network offering a Jesuit contribution to issues of debt and develop...
- Indonesia: three-wheeling in Jakarta | (Jan-2002) Jakarta’s Governor and city administration have been systematically driving the poor out of this city of 10 million people. Some 6,000 families have h...
- Romania: “D’you have a place for me?” | (Jan-2002) The Jesuit Province of Romania bravely survived the long harsh years of communism. Now with a good group of young Romanians in formation, Jesuits from...
- Immigrants tell their stories at the General Curia in Rome | (Jan-2002) “Human migration” was the theme of the mid-January staff seminar at the Jesuit General Curia in Rome. Migration raises philosophical and theological i...
- France: Christians rise to battle consumerism | (Jan-2002) “Live simply so that others may simply live” is how the Christian Life Community (CLC) summarised its reflections on sustainable development at a nati...
- John Paul II, “No peace without justice” | (Dec-2001) “No peace without justice, no justice without forgiveness: this is what I wish to say to believers and unbelievers alike, to all men and women of good...
- Ecuador: Families first need a roof | (Dec-2001) In Ecuador people are constantly migrating towards Guayaquil, the country’s most important port, and nearly 10 per cent of the people there live on th...
- Korea: Living with illegal squatters | (Dec-2001) In 1975 a Jesuit known as Il Woo Jung (John Daly SJ) moved into an illegal squatter area of Seoul to be a neighbour to the squatters. His work was the...
- Poland: Family for children without families | (Dec-2001) The Jesuit social apostolate has managed to traverse the social and political upheavals of the 1980s and 90s through caring for the orphans of Cracow,...
- India: Villages for the future | (Dec-2001) Hundreds of thousands of tiny rural villages are an important but little-known feature of India today. Village Reconstruction Organisation (VRO) was f...
- USA: Mexican immigrants | (Dec-2001) A little known fact about 11 September is that several thousand people working in the World Trade Centre at the time were undocumented immigrants, and...
- After 11 September, is there hope for peace? by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini SJ | (Dec-2001) These days it seems there are so many evils to deplore and defeat: besides terrorism and violence, every injustice should be condemned, and every affr...
- Ecology: “Listening to the leaves” | (Nov-2001) Ecological consciousness grows out of an ongoing dialogue with the sciences, economics, theology. All indispensable, but we often overlook the dialogu...
- Lebanon: Servants are people too | (Nov-2001) Lebanon’s population of three million includes a hidden population of 150,000 illegal migrants and refugees from Africa and Asia. The Pastoral Committ...
- Indigenous Peru: Between army and guerrillas | (Nov-2001) Ayacucho is an area of indigenous Quechua culture and one of the poorest areas in Peru. The Society of Jesus has taken charge of a new rural parish in...
- India: Following the Lord’s footsteps in South Asia | (Nov-2001) South Asian society today struggles with the powerful forces of globalisation, religious fundamentalism, and ethnic nationalism. At the first Assistan...
- Mexico: A liberation | (Nov-2001) President Vicente Fox of Mexico announced the release of the two peasant ecologists, Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, whom the Jesuit Human Rights...
- Central-Eastern Europe: Welcoming people on the move | (Nov-2001) During the 8th meeting of the Social Apostolate of Central-Eastern Europe held in Slovenia (8-11 November), the 25 participants reflected on the Slove...
- Germany: Living with Muslims | (Nov-2001) Does a “parallel Islamic society” exist in Germany, and to what extent? Is there an alternative to isolated Muslim ghettos within European societies? ...
- USA: Two Jesuits prizes | (Nov-2001) The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (New York) awarded its 2001 prize to Francisco de Roux SJ, founding director of the Programme for Development a...
- September 11th in the US media | (Nov-2001) September 11th in the US media, by John Pungente SJ.
- JRS “Dispatches” turns 100! | (Oct-2001) The Jesuit Refugee Service, an international apostolic work, forms part of the social apostolate of the Society of Jesus. In 1997 its international of...
- Zambia: GM crops dumped | (Oct-2001) Opinions are plentiful but data are scarce on the potential health risks of genetically modified (GM) food crops. Novel methods and concepts are neede...
- Germany: Globalization ethics and social capital | (Oct-2001) A group of experts on “World Economy and Social Ethics” was appointed in 1989 by the German Bishops’ Conference Research Group on the Universal Tasks ...
- Albania: Coastal villages of the gods | (Oct-2001) “The poverty of the culture is one of the crucial aspects of the culture of poverty, adding emptiness to abundant suffering: it’s easier to cure pover...
- Christian-Muslim Talking Points | (Oct-2001) Christian-Muslim Talking Points, by Tom Michel SJ.
- Mexico: They’ve killed our colleague | (Oct-2001) Digna Ochoa, 37, one of Mexico’s most prominent human rights lawyers, was shot to death in her office on 18 October. She had worked for many years at ...
- Burundi: Martyr of the poor | (Oct-2001) Antonio Bargiggia, 43, was shot and killed on 3 October at a roadblock in Gitega province, his body dragged out of the jeep and left lying on the road...
- Micronesia: Social challenges for small islands | (Sep-2001) Spread across 2,500 km of the Western Pacific Ocean, the Federate States of Micronesia (FSM) are a developing country with a population of about 105,0...
- India: Defending the Goan language | (Sep-2001) Authorities are attempting to change the language system in the Indian State of Goa and to suppress Konkani, the language inherited by the Christians ...
- Europe: Their faces make you think | (Sep-2001) Frankfurt am Oder, on the frontier between Germany and Poland, is where thousands of migrants each year try to fulfil their dream of entering the Euro...
- Colombia: Not repression but protection | (Sep-2001) The Church in Colombia and its neighbouring countries is attempting to give a first co-ordinated response to the worst humanitarian crisis in the West...
- Rwanda: A project for genocide orphans | (Sep-2001) The problems of misery and illiteracy in Rwanda are compounded by the tens of thousands of youngsters left orphans by the genocide of 1994. They are p...
- U.S.A.: Reflections on the terrorist attacks | (Sep-2001) Reflections, by Arturo Sosa SJ, on the terrorist attacks.
- The G8 at Genoa: A sequel | (Aug-2001) On Friday July 20 at 9 in the morning, all the bells of Genoa’s churches rang to launch two days of prayer and fasting at the Church of Saint Anthony ...
- Bosnia: Young visitors break the isolation | (Aug-2001) In August some forty young Italian volunteers spent two weeks at Banja Luka, the main city in the Serbian part of Bosnia. The Catholic Bishop of Banja...
- U.S.A.: A private school for the poor | (Aug-2001) Most of the 127,000 inhabitants of Chicago’s Pilsen neighbourhood are recent immigrants, and 40% are under the age of 18. With rural Mexican backgroun...
- Northern Ireland: The wobbly road towards reconciliation | (Aug-2001) The peace process in Northern Ireland is in another wobbly period: the Good Friday agreement (1998), which started out as power sharing between Cathol...
- Taiwan: To abolish the death penalty | (Aug-2001) With the growing liberalisation and support for human rights in Taiwan, the death penalty has become an issue of public debate. In May 2000, Cardinal ...
- Zambia: Debt deal a bad deal | (Aug-2001) In 1996 the World Bank and IMF accorded Zambia the dubious distinction of being an HIPC (Highly Indebted Poor Country), which entitles them to a “debt...
- Mexico: Human Rights in the name of Blessed Miguel Pro | (Aug-2001) In 1999 two founders of a peasant ecology organisation were illegally detained by Mexican soldiers. Because of their successful campaign against the u...
- G8 Genoa | (Jul-2001) The summit of the eight most industrialised countries (G8) takes place in the Italian city of Genoa on July 20-22. The event is attracting a whole var...
- Peru: The quake destroys… solidarity builds | (Jul-2001) On 23 June an earthquake registering 6.9 on the Richter scale shook the southern part of Peru. Only a few months after El Salvador and Gujarat in Indi...
- India: A centre of counter-ideology | (Jul-2001) “Christians should work as part of a larger community to fight social injustice.” Ambrose Pinto SJ, interviewed by Arul Elango SJ, is completing his t...
- Unemployment falling, insecurity rising | (Jul-2001) Recent studies have raised public awareness of an increase in the “working poor,” a phenomenon especially evident in the United States throughout the ...
- D. R. of Congo: CLC close to the most desperate | (Jul-2001) The D.R. of Congo has for years been suffering a de facto war and the grinding collapse of the State. In this very difficult context the Christian Lif...
- Canada: Invitation to young Native people | (Jul-2001) The World Youth Days WYD will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 23 to 28 July 2002. For three days before, the Canadian Jesuits involved in ind...
- Jamaica: Jesuit murder | (Jun-2001) On Sunday 17 June, Martin Royackers SJ preached about Jamaica’s nagging problem of crime and violence: 453 people have been killed on the Caribbean is...
- Environmental love in India | (Jun-2001) In 1988 Robert Athickal SJ began “Tarumitra” (Friends of Trees) in Patna. Staff members visit schools to speak about environmental concerns; the stude...
- Brazil: Research centres confront rapid change | (Jun-2001) Are Brazilian research centres “in the crossroads of ideologies, in the front line of social conflict, where there is confrontation between the deepes...
- Italy: Faithful to the prisoners | (Jun-2001) The sixth work of mercy, “I was in prison and you came to visit me,” comes from Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 25, and gave its name to the Sixth Work of S...
- Latin America: What is this “Civil Society”? | (Jun-2001) The idea of civil society has recently become a key notion in Latin American life. It is found in the language of revolutionary groups, multilateral a...
- South Africa: “The wide and comprehensive domain of politics” | (Jun-2001) Nelson Mandela challenged the Churches to “join other agents of change and transformation in the difficult task of being midwife to the birth of our d...
- Teaching with Compassion in the Globalized World | (May-2001) “Globalization, a priori, is neither good nor bad,” John Paul II says, “it will be what people make of it.” Indeed, the process of globalization, whic...
- India: An ‘orchard’ for tribals and their cause | (May-2001) “Tribals” or “Adivasi,” as the indigenous people of India are called, do not fall within the Hindu caste structure. They are most densely concentrated...
- Madagascar: A new thrust for justice | (May-2001) Although at the time of its independence in 1960, Madagascar was quite developed in comparison with Africa, it now numbers among the world’s fifteen p...
- Honduras: Theatre as if laughing children mattered | (May-2001) “In a country as desperately poor as Honduras, why do theatre? Theatre is never going to lower the infant mortality rate. Theatre will not save an inf...
- Philippines: Training staff for their social mission | (May-2001) The Secretariat of the Jesuit Social Apostolate (SJSA), which serves some thirty social apostolate institutes in the Philippine Province, is meeting a...
- France: Sessions “For a Time of Justice” | (May-2001) Are the Jesuits of France still able to communicate life’s joys in places where living is hard? Can they convey the power and immediacy of the Gospels...
- Social justice falling out of fashion | (Apr-2001) 450 years ago St. Ignatius founded the Roman College, and its successor, the Pontifical Gregorian University, celebrated this anniversary in early Apr...
- Chile: Back to the Mapuche | (Apr-2001) From their arrival in Chile in 1593 until their expulsion in 1767, Jesuits ministered among the indigenous Mapuche people and defended them from abuse...
- Egypt: Providential help for everyone | (Apr-2001) Along the Nile (Upper Egypt), the city of Minia has developed rapidly and is overcrowded, with an unemployment rate among the highest in the country, ...
- India: The long road back in Gujarat | (Apr-2001) “For several days in March,” writes Michael Czerny SJ, “I visited the earthquake zone in the impoverished north-west of Gujarat near the Pakistan bord...
- Italy: When society “discards” people | (Apr-2001) Those living on the streets at the fringe of a rich western society are not rebels who have made a non-conformist choice. A society that ruthlessly pr...
- China: Taking care of lepers | (Apr-2001) About 320,000 people in continental China suffer from leprosy, the majority concentrated in the southern and south-western Provinces. Lepers and their...
- “A Jesuit in science is a man of God” | (Apr-2001) Jesuits in Science is a network of support and collaboration for individual Jesuits in the apostolate of natural sciences and technology. Forty-one me...
- New publications | (Apr-2001) The Revista de Fomento Social (RFS), produced by the Department of Economics and Business at the ETEA Jesuit University in Córdoba, Spain United States: Justice mounts to the pulpit | (Mar-2001) Almost ten years ago, Walter Burghardt SJ became convinced that the Church’s call for social justice had not reached enough people, much less permeate...
- Publishing in Japan and Catalonia: Happy 100th! | (Mar-2001) The bulletin of the Jesuit Social Center in Tokyo and “Cuadernos Cristisme i Justícia” (Christianity and Justice Quarterly) in Barcelona are both cele...
- Venezuela: Education where the asphalt roads don’t reach | (Mar-2001) How can Venezuela achieve a more just society? Education is one of the best strategies, but many States do not offer adequate education for the majori...
- France: Who’s afraid of the baby-snatchers? | (Mar-2001) While Europeans tend to get indignant about the growing forms of discrimination (HL00208), they often fail to include the biggest ethnic minority in E...
- Sri Lanka: Living peacefully is possible | (Mar-2001) The civil war in Sri Lanka has been going on for more than fifteen years, with Tamil rebels fighting against the Sinhalese majority, who dominates the...
- Russia: the suffering of re-birth | (Mar-2001) “Is a new Russian society in the process of being born?” was the big question asked by a colloquium on Russia and Europe held on 25 January at the Eur...
- India: The shaken earth of Gujarat | (Feb-2001) On January 26 a violent earthquake in the north-western Indian state of Gujarat caused up to 100,000 deaths and enormous destruction. UNICEF estimates...
- Slovenia: The dialogue of action | (Feb-2001) During the wars in the former Yugoslavia (1991-1999), the interaction and collaboration of people of different faiths were continuing signs of hope an...
- Europe: Provincials and Migrants | (Feb-2001) There are about 50 million refugees world-wide, and no signs of this number decreasing. Doors are often slammed shut in the faces of these peoples, wh...
- Is globalisation good for you? | (Feb-2001) “Global Economy and Cultures” (GEC) involves over forty Jesuit-sponsored social research and action centres around the world, studying the beneficial ...
- Ivory Coast: A research institute shoulder to shoulder with small artisans | (Feb-2001) Combining good social theory and development research with practical action in the poorest neighbourhoods of sprawling African cities -- this is task ...
- Uruguay: Death of Perico | (Feb-2001) During the long dictatorship in Uruguay, 1973-1984, Luis Pérez Aguirre SJ bravely supported the victims of injustice and the relatives of the disappea...
- Taiwan: Foreign workers routinely violated | (Jan-2001) The Rerum Novarum Centre is a non-governmental organisation founded by the Taiwan Jesuits in 1971 to help labourers at risk through advocacy, research...
- Paraguay: Forming young political leaders | (Jan-2001) The total discredit into which politicians have fallen, thanks to their corruption and ineffectiveness, has given birth in Paraguay to the Youth Parli...
- Ireland: Dying on the streets | (Jan-2001) Dublin has attracted international attention recently for its astonishing economic revival in the past decade. What doesn’t make the headlines (except...
- India: The voices of God’s children | (Jan-2001) Last March 15, a group of people began to assemble in the public parade ground across from St. Xavier’s school in Patna, India. Before long they numbe...
- Portugal: Inserted among the poor | (Jan-2001) St. Peter Claver parish is in the district of Caparica on the eastern outskirts of Lisbon, where middle-class families in the area find it hard to liv...
- Fighting corruption | (Jan-2001) Corruption undermines development and leads to increasing levels of human rights abuse. It undermines democracies and, in particular, the achievements...
- Refugee Book: “Everybody’s Challenge” | (Jan-2001) Refugee Book: “Everybody’s Challenge” To mark its 20th anniversary (14 November 2000), the Jesuit Refugee Service has published a collection of writ...
- El Salvador: On the earthquake by Jon Sobrino SJ | (Jan-2001) Another great tragedy has occurred, the El Salvador earthquake of 13 January. The scenes are terrifying: pain and inconsolable mourning for the dead, ...
- Southern Europe: Renewal and cohesion urgently needed | (Jan-2001) Called by the Provincial of Spain to a genuine institutional renewal, the social apostolates of Spain, Portugal and Italy met in Alcalá de Henares (8-...
- John Paul II's Message for the World Day of Peace, 2001 | (Dec-2000) Dialogue between cultures for a civilization of love and peace.
- Central-Eastern Europe: Is “social Justice” still a dirty word? | (Dec-2000) Ten years after the end of Communist Europe, where the word “justice” all too often used to name the greatest injustices, the word “social” hasn’t los...
- India: Borewells in the forest | (Dec-2000) Migrating tribal populations live in very precarious conditions in the forests of Southern India. In the State of Andra Pradesh, the Gotti Koyas tribe...
- Albania: First addiction programme in the Balkans | (Dec-2000) The first rehabilitation programme for young people addicted to alcohol and drugs has been opened in Albania: a drop-in centre at Tirana and a residen...
- Argentina: To build the country | (Dec-2000) Some twenty Jesuits and lay colleagues involved in the social-pastoral sector in Argentina met at the end of October at the CIAS (Centre for Social Re...
- Zambia: Centre in Lusaka keeps government on its toes | (Dec-2000) The Jesuit Centre of Theological Reflection of Lusaka (JCTR) explains its role as carefully observing the many social changes in Zambia and Malawi and...
- Honduras: Jesuit and parish awarded human rights prize | (Dec-2000) The Honduran Human Rights Commissioner awarded the annual Human Rights Prize to Peter Marchetti SJ and the parish of Tocoa in northern Honduras, in Oc...
- USA: Father General challenges universities | (Nov-2000) "Educating the whole person," the traditional high standard of Jesuit education, isn’t high enough, according to Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach. Studyin...
- India: Teaching botanical love | (Nov-2000) “Unscrupulous exploitation of natural resources and the environment degrades the quality of life; it destroys cultures and sinks the poor in misery” (...
- Spain: “To heal the violence” | (Nov-2000) Violent ideas and harsh decisions in circles of power are far more dangerous than hostile confrontations and fisticuffs on the edges of society, said ...
- Latin America: New social initiatives | (Nov-2000) The Latin American Provincials, meeting at Javier (Spain) in October 2000, approved three social initiatives that will put Jesuits on the side of thos...
- Central Europe: Tolerating xenophobia | (Nov-2000) How to face the problems that minorities and the marginalised have in a Europe which is expanding, but not welcoming? How do we relate to customs and...
- Australia: Confronting drugs | (Oct-2000) Many young Australians suffering from mental illness use illegal drugs to alleviate the effects of their illness. Jesuit Social Services (JSS
- Brazil: CNAS meets young Jesuits | (Oct-2000) More formed Jesuits need to be involved in the social apostolate, and more scholastics should be preparing for it. These are some of the conclusions o...
- Canada: Media summit | (Oct-2000) Educating children and young people to be “literate” (aware and critical) when watching TV or movies, or using Internet, is an important contribution ...
- Africa: World Aids Conference | (Oct-2000) The World AIDS Conference (www.aids2000.com) took place in July 2000 in Durban, South Africa, to re-assess the ...
- Israel/Palestine: Conflicts to be transformed | (Oct-2000) Christians and Muslims fighting in Bosnia; Catholics and Protestants fighting in Ireland; Christians, Muslims and Jews fighting in the Middle East. Wh...
- Brazil: Plebiscite | (Oct-2000) Is the IMF right? Government says YES, over 6 million say NO. The Social Centre (CIAS) in Brasilia helped to organise a National Plebiscite on Externa...
- India: Profile of the IDEAS Centre | (Oct-2000) In the Madurai Province, IDEAS (Institute of Development Education, Action and Studies) is engaged in the liberation and development of the dalits, kn...
- Hungary: Faith communities among the ruins | (Oct-2000) The social apostolate was flourishing in the 1930s, Hungarian Jesuits learned at a Province Symposium on the Social Apostolate in August at Dobogókó. ...
- Nepal: Drug rehab | (Sep-2000) Since 1983 the Society in Nepal, with the support of the German foundation Misereor, has been involved in drug-rehabilitation. Now at Kathmandu, the J...
- France: Migrants | (Sep-2000) Fr. Jean Weydert SJ has been studying refugee and migration problems for years at CERAS (Centre de Recherche et d’Action Sociales), Paris. In a recent...
- El Salvador: Rural development | (Sep-2000) Once the Jesuit Refugee Service finished its mandate in El Salvador in 1995, the Central American Province set up the Servicio Jesuita para el Desarro...
- USA: New volunteer corps | (Sep-2000) The Detroit Province is about to launch its new Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corps (ILVC), inspired by a successful initiative of the same name in the Maryl...
- The power of symbols | () He was one of the more than 110 young Jesuit scholastics from India who came to Mumbai to attend the WSF. They came from the South (Satya Nilayan), fr...
"As he saw the crowds, his heart was filled with pity for them, because they were worried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." (Mt. 9:36)<...
London Jesuit Volunteers is a recent initiative of the Mount Street Jesuit Centre in London. Members commit to volunteering for 2-8 hours per week,...
Most of my workdays are spent in front of a computer. This is not a complaint; merely a mere statement of fact. As a policy and advocacy officer fo...
The Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat has been authorised by Father General to establish a task force to help implement Decree 3 of General Co...
My arrival in Chile, on the way to theology studies, could not have been more "earth-shaking" than it was. Two hours after I arrived, there passed ...
Kandhamal is deadly beautiful. A tropical forest, but with close mountains and deep valleys, and a climate that can get alpine in winter, without t...
I have many stories to share with you, but I choose just the following one.
We left Santo Domingo for Haiti, and on the way we decided that...
The Jesuits have been present in Haiti - except during several periods of expulsion - since 1704 and know the territory and the people very well. T...
A forest in agony, that's what Brazil's Amazonia is. Called the "lung of the planet," that name may cease, at any moment, to be an appropriate desc...
My life has been one continuous apprenticeship. And my best teachers have been the poor and the young people of Andalusia and Latin America, especi...
The annual meeting of the Coordinators of the social apostolate in the Assistancy of Africa took place in Monrovia, Liberia, from 25 to 30 October....
Locust seed bean cake. What is it and what has it got to do with the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice based in Toronto, Canada??
In mid-May, Fr. Pablo and I headed out for a 4-week long journey to China. For more than a year we had been searching for an opportunity to lend ou...
Jesuits and co-workers in the social apostolate from the Asia-Pacific region met in Manila 17 - 21 August. The purpose of the meeting was to explor...
Sometimes you experience things that make you feel profoundly grateful to your brothers and sisters as you see how God is creating a better world t...
During the military coup d'état in Honduras on 28 June, the Jesuit radio station "Radio Progreso" was shut down by the Army. The Provincial ...
On the occasion of the forthcoming United Nations' International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, 9 August, the Jesuit SHAKTI Legal aid and h...
During the time I was working with displaced persons in Japan we would come up against a number of unforeseen legal obstacles and long trials. Our ...
Violent clashes between police and indigenous people in northern Peru on 5 June left, according to officia...
A number of recent initiatives by the southern European provinces of the Society of Jesus highlight a si...
Jesuit Task Force on Sri Lanka (September 2009)
The President of the Jesuit Conference of...During Holy Week, the Migrations Team of Christian Life Community (CLC) in Spain, along with the Vedruna Carmelites Community and the Elín A...
16 May: Christians elated by secular election win
The Indian elections were won by a secul...
The plight of millions of people in Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made hea...
In June 2008, Headlines reported on the plight of the indigenous populations of Rora...
At the initiative of Denis Maugenest SJ, director of the Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix (CERAP), a meeting was held from 26 to ...
The US/Canadian Jesuit Commission for Social and International Ministries (JCSIM) invites English-speaking Headlines readers to join the Ignatian P...
The Jesuits of Patna in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Patna, Bihar, in eastern India organized a "Communal Harmony Christmas Celebration" o...
The first experience that will feed strongly into my apostolic engagement was the clear focus on the relationship between faith and the environment...
An experience of the Pre-Forum and the WSF that many of my 28 companions from South Asia and I keep reminiscing about is our encounter and interact...
This Social Forum is well-timed. It takes place at a moment when the world faces some big crises such as the food and energy crisis and an unpreced...
At Final Assembly that concluded the WSF, we asked François Houtard for a brief assessment of the Forum and a few prospects for the future. ...
On Friday 30 January, approximately 120 Jesuits, friends and lay partners of the Society of Jesus gathered together to participate in the Ignatian ...
The Belém World Social Forum was announced as the Forum in which participation by indigenous peoples would be higher than ever before. In fa...
My name is Paul Martin. I was born in Liverpool, England, and joined the Jesuits there in 1984. I first came to Guyana in South America in 1989 to ...
Here are some opinions from the 231 participants of the Pre-Forum. About half of these participants were people who live in Belém or in this...
Let me start with the obvious: there were many socially-minded and serious people at the inaugural march of the WSF. There was a lot of fun, a lot ...
We have asked some of the participants to tell us who they are and why they have come from far away places. These simple questions may help our rea...
27 January – To the notes of the song “Gracias a la vida”, the immense multi-coloured throng of the World Social Forum (WSF) 2009...
The sessions began today, 26 January, with a few words to commemorate Republic Day being celebrated in India. We joined this celebration through a ...
An important part of the Pre-Forum’s program was the presentation of different experiences concerning the struggles of the indigenous people ...
Frei Betto (Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo OP) is a well-known writer and social activist, an adviser to the President of Brazil on the Zero Hunger...
The Pre-Forum Fé'namazônia "Religious Faith(s) and Defence of Life", the meeting organized by Amazonian Jesuits on the occasion of the...
The 2009 edition of the World Social Forum (WSF) will be remembered for the largest mobilization of indigenous peoples in the hist...
With only a few days to go now to the start of the World Social Forum in Belém, we would like to briefly introduce the events planned for 20...
Mary Colwell is an Englishwoman who has worked as a documentary maker with the BBC. I met her over breakfast and we talked about a subject she love...
It was a good idea to reach Belém a day and a half earlier. One has more free time, the body clock gets more time to adjust itself - and a b...
Jesuits from the Eastern European Assistancy held their annual social apostolate meeting from 6-9 November in Ukr...
On the occasion of the World Social Forum 2009 (WSF), scheduled to take place in Belém do Pará from 27 January to 1 ...
The Jesuit social apostolate delegates of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean published a statement on 18 December, International Day o...
The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Centre (Centro Prodh) in Mexico City, founded during an authoritarian and...
The Ignatian Advocacy Workshop, held in El Escorial from 10-16 November, was described as a success by Fr Fernando Franco SJ, director of the Socia...
From 25-29 October, the 39th Congress of the International Fe y Alegría Foundation took place in Lima, Peru. The topic of this international...
In the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, a significant event occurred in the detention centre of Postojna (Slovenia): the opening of...
Since anti-Christian violence broke out in the Indian state of Orissa on 23 August, Jesuits have been involved in many kinds of activities to mend ...
Zimbabwe has dropped out of the headlines but the country continues to suffer from major inflation and serious food shortage. In a recent personal ...
The Society of Jesus is making a major effort to gather all Jesuit and wider Ignatian initiatives worldwide that are involved in advocacy for peopl...
Last May, Cyclone Nargis, a devastating natural disaster, occurred in Myanmar alongside the earthquake in China and the Tsunami in Indonesia. 150,0...
The 17th Convention of Jesuits in Social Action (JESA) was held from 14 to 16 October 2008 in Guwahati in the state of Assam in north-eastern Indi...
The Christian community of the state of Orissa has been at the centre of international attention after sporadic episodes of violence against Christ...
Advocacy, relying as it does on convincing the other party, is a non-confrontational approach in bringing about social change. To stimulate discuss...
The 10th biannual meeting of the social-pastoral network of Jesuits engaged with indigenous peoples of Latin America Three African Jesuits - Groum Tesfaye SJ (Ethiopia), Paterne Mombé SJ (Togo) and Séverin Mukoko SJ (DRC) - represented the African Je...
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World Food Day was celebrated on 16 October, the theme this year being “Investing in Agriculture
for Food Security.”...
A plane carrying 110 passengers, including many students from Loyola Jesuit College in Nigeria, crashed December 10 in the country’s main oil cit...
The tender fruit falls
“At the dawn of a new millennium, there is growing hope that relationships betwee...
We write to you as the Jesuit Conference Board of the Society of Jesus in the United States. Today, there are approximately 4...
I am writing to you to ask you immediately to stop the bombing of Afghanistan and preparing for other wars, to cut the Pentag...
The land pregnant with curses
What wind is this
That brings wayward dirges?
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At first, language was beggared by the impact of the pictures. The networks calmly and factu...
After the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington, is there any hope for Christian-Musli...
The defence of human liberty is only possible if intimately linked with mercy and forgi...