Category: News

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Thanksgiving Mass in Armagh

  A small and friendly group met for the third Thanksgiving Mass in Dromantine on Saturday 20 September. The beautiful weather added to this lovely occasion. Fr John Guiney...

Radio Chikuni rocks Monze in Zambia with its annual Tonga concert!

The Tonga Music Festival in Monze, Zambia, is organised each year by Chikuni Community Radio Station. The station’s vision is to enable the community of Chikuni to be fully...
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A Big Yellow JCB Sets Out for South Sudan

Fr Richard O’Dwyer SJ looks forward to the arrival of a big, yellow JCB that will travel by sea and road from Dublin to Rumbek! Before he left Ireland...
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Meet Murt Curry SJ Man of Many Talents

Continuing our series of missionaries’ stories for the Mission Month of October ““Irish Men behind the Missions”, Fr Murt Curry SJ shares some of his present activities and past...
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Sisters are doin’ it for themselves in South Sudan

Groups of women in South Sudan are taking matters into their own hands. Tired of waiting for political leaders to agree a peace agreement and the international community to send...
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Leaps and Bounds for Loyola Secondary School

Malawi is a rich country in resources but poor in living conditions for the majority of the people. The educational system is very inadequate for the population of 15...
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South Sudan is three years old this week

South Sudan marks its third anniversary of independence but the youngest country in the world is on the brink of catastrophe and mass starvation
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Update on Maban programmes in South Sudan

We are immensely grateful for the €438,132 that the South Sudan appeal has raised to date for the refugee programmes in Maban, North East of South Sudan.
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Life is beginning to return to normal in the Philippines

From the construction of multi-purpose halls with classrooms and chapels, to ““Roofs for Relief”, solar panels, fishing boats and mobile banking, Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan (SLB – the Jesuit...
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South Sudan appeal on World Refugee Day

On World Refugee Day, the Irish Jesuit Mission Office (IJMO) and its Spanish partner Entreculturas with other Xavier Network members launched a special appeal for the people of South...
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Eminent African Leaders Plead With Kiir And Riek To End War in South Sudan

Photo from www.aljazeera.com “Let your decisive action now to end hostilities be your legacy to all the people of South Sudan, to Africa and to the world as history will...
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Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre Winner of Equator Prize

  As part of the UNDP Equator Initiative, Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre has been chosen as one of 10 winners of the Equator Prize for Sustainable Land Management in...