Universal Children’s Day 2016

Photo credit: Zerene Haddad / Jesuit Refugee Service Sunday 20th November is Universal Children’s Day, dedicated to promoting the rights of the child. Pope Francis has launched an appeal...

Can we stick to our Christian beliefs?

Family and friends of deceased Irish Jesuit missionaries gathered for the annual mass on Sunday 6th November held by the Irish Jesuit Missions. This year Fr John Guiney SJ...

Annual Memorial Mass 2016 for deceased Irish missionaries

A large group of family and friends of deceased Jesuit Missionaries gathered for our annual Mass on Sunday 6th November. This year Fr John Guiney SJ was unable to...

“No discrimination by passport”: the Jesuits in Jordan

Maysaloun, a teacher at the JRS school, on the balcony of the school, nestled in amongst a high density suburb. Teachers like her are invaluable to the development of...

Pope Francis warms the hearts of Jesuits in Rome

Pope Francis visits delegates at the Jesuit General Congregation 36.Image:CNS/Itua Egbor SJ  Fr John K Guiney SJ blogs about a very special visitor at the Jesuit General Congregation in...

Acquiring new skills at Kakuma Camp

The JRS Safe Haven house dozens of children in need of protection and guidance in Kakuma refugee camp. (Angela Wells/JRS) The sprawling refugee camp of Kakuma in Kenya is...

Jesuits worldwide meet and greet in Rome

The gathering of Jesuits from all over the world began last weekend, blogs Fr John Guiney SJ from Rome. It is wonderful to meet so many from the diversity...

Jesuits gather in Rome

Jesuit Curia, Rome/Liam O’Connell SJ Could St Ignatius Loyola have envisioned that 476 years after his founding of the Society of Jesus, 212 participants would congregate in Rome to...

Pope Francis Care for Creation Season

Photo credit: Martin McNamara ‘A Mystical Sunrise’ During this Season of Care for Creation, Pope Francis calls us to respect and protect Earth, our common home. As Loyola Jesuit...

Cambodia: Buddhist and Christian approaches

Fr Ashley Evans SJ was on leave in Ireland during the summer and updated the Irish Jesuit Missions office on the Xavier Jesuit School project in Sisophon, Cambodia. He...

Christians and Muslims side by side in Syria

Photo:Avo Kaprealian and Sedki Al Imam/JRS, Aleppo, Syria. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) employs 350 people in Syria and in Aleppo, with its population of 1.5 million, some of...

Pope Francis’ Care for Creation Season begins

Photo credit: Martin McNamara, ‘Sky and Lake’ in Fingal, County Dublin.   Welcome to the ‘Season of Creation’. Beginning on September 1st, the Season will run until the feast...