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- 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 ...
- 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) 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 ...
- "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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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) ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 [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 ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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, ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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’...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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,...
- “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: “...
- 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 ...
- 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 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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, ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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: 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...
- 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...
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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...