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Nyawuok counselling

Counselling is a tool for survival

  “My name is Nyawuok Chuol Mut. I am a South Sudanese refugee. My day starts at 6.00am, when I begin to the normal household chores like cleaning the...
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Recollection of Rwandan Genocide

  John Guiney SJ was working in St Joseph the Worker Parish in Kangemi, Nairobi at the time of the Rwandan genocide. On its 25th anniversary, he recalls how...

Four Priorities for the Decade

This week, Fr Arturo Sosa SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) made public the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs), which resulted from a two-year period of...

Belvedere Boys’ Fundraiser

A first-year home economics class in Belvedere College, Dublin has donated more than €2,000 towards the building of a science classroom in the Adjumani refugee settlement of northern Uganda....

Tony O’Riordan on RTE Radio

Irish Jesuit Tony O’Riordan was on RTE’s Today with Seán O’Rourke while on a short visit home to see his family last week. He discussed his work with the...

Death of an Influential Educator

Fr Alfred (Freddie) Deignan SJ, of the Irish Jesuit community in Hong Kong died, aged 91, on December 11, 2018. As Principal of both Wah Yan Colleges and Chairman...

Irish Teachers Visit Ugandan Schools

Kris Vekic, Education for Justice Coordinator, visited Uganda with a group of teachers from Irish Jesuit schools in November. It is the second year that he has brought a ...

Joy and Transformation in Zambia-Malawi

Leonard Moloney SJ, Provincial of the Irish Jesuit Province, spent two weeks in Zambia and Malawi with IJM’s John Guiney SJ this October. He was moved by the welcome...

Learning the Meaning of Humanity

Fr Fernando Azpiroz SJ working the land together with friends in south Yunnan Province, China. (March 2018)  Irish Jesuits have been present in China for more than 90 years....

A Legacy of Hope in South Sudan

Dedicated to the life of Fr Victor-Luke Odhiambo SJ, RIP, 1956 – 2018 South Sudan is a beautiful country; intense, scarred and complex. I spent a month there in...

Teach a Woman to Farm, and Feed a Village for a Lifetime

Female farmers in Kasungu learn techniques such as manure making, afforestation, soil cover, and maize variety selection through JCED’s Farmers Field Schools. Jesuit Adrian Makasa’s work with the Jesuit...

Fr Victor-Luke Odhiambo SJ RIP

“Fr Victor-Luke worked with all his energy and gave his sweat and blood for the promotion of good education in South Sudan. This effort reached its climax at Mazollari...