Category: News

16 June 2016

World Refugee Day 20th June
The 20th June 2016 is a very special Monday. It is the United Nations World Refugee Day when the focus is on refugees’ plight and the ordinary human beings...

02 June 2016

Laudato Sí and ‘Go Wild for Life’
An old Oak tree. Photo-credit ©: C. Devitt Go ‘Wild for Life’ on June 5th. It’s the United Nations World Environment Day (WED) of awareness and action for the...

10 May 2016

Year of Mercy: Education in South Sudan
A Sudanese refugee teacher pauses after finishing her courses for morning, before attending JRS teacher training courses in the afternoon. “I’ve lived through three decades of war and I’ve...

04 May 2016

Nepal Earthquake one year later
A family in Jaretar, Kavrepalanchowk at candle making training Education Ever since the earthquake that devastated Nepal on 25th April 2015, the Nepal Jesuit Social Institute (NJSI) has been...

27 April 2016

A Jesuit moves on
Fr Martin Curry SJ leaves the Irish Jesuit Missions (IJM) this month after 10 years’ dedicated service. He returns to his beloved Galway to take up new duties there....

20 April 2016

Mother Earth Day and the Paris Agreement
Paris Agreement (google creative commons) This Friday, April 22nd, marks the celebration of Earth Day, the annual event which brings together millions of people from around the globe to...

12 April 2016

South Sudan: Loyola Secondary School
Our series on Achievement in Africa and the struggle towards success focuses in on South Sudan, one of the most conflicted countries on the continent. At Loyola Secondary School...

22 March 2016

Fr Joseph Mallin SJ: looking back 2016-1916
  Fr Joseph Mallin SJ received the freedom of the city award from the Lord Mayor of Dublin Críona Ní Dhálaigh who flew to Hong Kong to meet him...

21 March 2016

Celebrating Easter 2016
  As we celebrate Easter 2016 we remember the men and women who struggled for our national freedom in 1916. This vision and ideal of Ireland’s independence was an inspiration...

16 March 2016

Year of Mercy: Advancing Education for Refugees
In recent days, the world has witnessed increased displacement of thousands of people due to conflicts going on in various countries. And while disruption to normal life, deaths and...

16 March 2016

“Be Merciful, Just as your Father is Merciful”
Pope Francis has put it very simply: “The Church is not in the world to condemn, but to make possible an encounter with the visceral love that is God’s...

16 March 2016

South Sudan: Education is an Act of Mercy
Students study after class in Yambio, South Sudan (Aidan Azairwe/Jesuit Refugee Service) “I’ve lived through three decades of war and I’ve never experienced as much violence as I did...