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Mission Month October 2013

October is Mission Month October is Mission Month. Pope Francis recalls the many missionaries “who proclaim the Gospel despite great obstacles”.

Unspeakable persecution, Robin Harris

David Cameron will almost certainly get his Syrian war. Who will fight it, let alone who will win it, remains unclear. But who will lose it is already known...
Loyola Secondary School Kasungu Malawi

Kasungu Secondary School Malawi

Loyola Jesuit Secondary School (JLSS) in Malawi!  When Fr. John Guiney SJ of the Irish Jesuit Mission Office visited Kasungu in August, he saw what was an empty field...

Irish Jesuit celebrates 100th birthday!

Irish Jesuit Joe Mallin celebrates his 100th birthday on Friday 13 September. Joe’s father, Commandant Michael Mallin was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising. He was second...

Missionaries in Collins Barracks

The Jesuit Mission Office had a get together with some of our missionaries, visitors and friends at Collins Barracks Museum on Thursday 22 August. This is the fifth year...

Goodbye To Davy Byrne

A uniformed band played ahead of the hearse as they brought Davy Byrne’s body down the Garvaghy Road to be buried. Davy came to Portadown 28 years ago, after...

Thanksgiving Mass in Northern Ireland

On Saturday morning 22 June a Mass took place in the Dromantine Retreat Centre, near Newry, Co Down.  This Mass was the second gathering in Northern Ireland since we...

The Work of Jesuit Refugee Service in South America

‘Living in Limbo‘ profiles the inspirational work of the Jesuit Refugee Service and asks is it time that Ireland, Europe, US and China factor human rights into all trade...

Africa – Can Education Contribute to Development

Social and Moral Challenges Two weeks ago, I left Lilongwe, capital of Malawi, a southern-central African country of great potentials, great problems. I am on my way to the...

Help Us Build a Chapel – Buy One Brick

An appeal has been launched by the Irish Jesuit Mission Office to build a chapel for Loyola Jesuit Secondary School in Wau. The region has been badly affected by...

A Jesuit’s Work with HIV and AIDS

Michael J. Kelly, SJ, was one of the first ten recipients of the new Presidential Distinguished Service Awards at Áras an Uachtaráin on 15th November 2012. President Michael D....

At the Frontiers in the Middle East

“What strikes me most about these refugees is their sadness at leaving a country which they love and where they have left many loved ones. Perhaps the bombardment crept...