Category: News

A Decade of Friendship

The South Dublin parish of Sandymount has shared cultural and social links with a township in Lusaka, Zambia for almost ten years. The partnership resulted in clean running water...

Bringing Mandazi to Market in Kenya

A group of single mothers in Western Kenya access training and resources from the Jesuit Hakimani Centre to create employment for themselves and promote healthy eating by starting a...

An Oasis at the Margins

“Women and girls are Africa’s greatest untapped resource, and it is they, not diamonds or oil and minerals, that will be the foundation for solid, sustainable and equitable progress”....

‘Fīor Eireannach gan dabht’

‘FÄ«or Eireannach gan dabht’ Joe Mallin SJ, son of Commdt. Michael Mallin, who was executed for his role in the Easter Rising, died peacefully and fittingly, on Easter Sunday...

Irish Men Behind the Missions: Fr Joe Mallin SJ RIP

Fr Joe Mallin SJ passed on to his final reward on the 1st April 2018 in Hong Kong. At 104, Fr Mallin was the oldest living Irish Jesuit missionary,...

Spirit of Success in South Sudan

Sarah Phillip attends the JRS Adult Literacy Programme in Maban, South Sudan Sarah and Rahab are inspirational young women who are striving to complete their education in the hostile...

Xavier Network Meeting in Rome

John Guiney SJ, Director of Irish Jesuit Missions and the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice was in Rome earlier in the month at a meeting of representatives of...

A Condition of Gratitude

Fr Tony O’Riordan SJ Tony O’Riordan SJ is travelling to South Sudan next week, to take over as Project Director of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Maban. The refugee settlement...

St Mary’s Community School Water Project

St Mary Community School, Matero, Zambia Water is still one of the biggest problems in many Zambian communities. Most communities and schools in Zambia still drink unsafe and untreated...

Three Decades of Healing in China

Fr Luis Ruis and Fr Fernando Azpiroz SJ Thirty years ago, Fr Luis Ruiz, had his first encounter with a community of persons affected by leprosy in Taikam island,...

Malawian Ecology in Daily Life

Chitetezo mbaula is a low-carbon-emitting energy-efficient stove produced and distributed by JCED. Pope Francis invites us “to acknowledge our contribution, smaller or greater, to the disfigurement and destruction of...

Responding to Injustice: An Ignatian Approach

While there is no universal definition of what justice is, the daily manifest of images and stories of injustice from across Ireland and the world is unambiguously clear. As...