Category: News

27 February 2016

Refugees or migrants? Husbands, fathers, wives, mothers, sons and brothers
  Through its collection of stories, “Journeys of Hope”, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) records the individual voices, hopes and dreams of people seeking new, safe lives in Europe....

11 February 2016

World Radio Day: Radio Chikuni Journalists get on their bikes in Zambia (1)
  Bridging the information gap In Monze, Zambia, the vision of Chikuni Community Radio Station is to enable the community of Chikuni to be fully developed in all aspects of...

03 February 2016

Irish Men Behind the Missions : Fr. Donal Doyle SJ
‘Going to the Far East’ was an expression used by many missionaries in the past to mean they were going to China and South East Asia. In this new...

13 January 2016

World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Sunday 17th January
  The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2016 is “Migrants and Refugees Challenge Us. The Response of the Gospel of Mercy.”...

21 December 2015

COP21. Success and Disappointments
Source: Photograph by Patrick Kovarik / Afp / Getty The Paris Agreement: successes, disappointments, and the road ahead In early December, Catherine Devitt, environmental justice officer with the Jesuit...

08 December 2015

Irish Men behind the Missions: Fr Gerry Keane SJ
  “Christ on a bike!”—or, a priest on a Honda 50—was rare in 1970’s Ireland, well in Tipperary anyway. I suppose it was summer 1974 when Uncle Gerard, as...

08 December 2015

Encounters with God in Japan
  Fr Donal Doyle SJ has lived and worked in Japan for over 50 years. He is a recipient of this year’s Business and Education Presidential Distinguished Services Awards that...

08 December 2015

Learning to Make a Living and a Difference
  After several years of an empty plot and then three years of busy construction work, Loyola Jesuit Secondary School (LJSS) has finally moved from dream to reality! In...

04 December 2015

Transforming our world: The Sustainable Development Goals
  Catherine Devitt is the newly appointed Environmental Justice Officer in the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice. Here she lays out the aims of the Sustainable Development Goals...

28 November 2015

The Land of the Silent
  At the annual Memorial Mass for deceased missionaries in November, Fr Joe Keaney SJ knew that a long homily wouldn’t work for a Dublin congregation as it does...

10 November 2015

Beauty and brutality: the confounding contradictions of South Sudan
  Darkness falls early in South Sudan. When the unspeakably bright sun sleeps, there isn’t much to illuminate the hot air. Just fireflies, the headlights of occasional military trucks,...

30 October 2015

Irish Men behind the Missions
Every year on a Sunday afternoon in November, the chapel at Milltown Park in Dublin glows in candlelight and resonates with the sound of music and singing. Families, friends...