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A new year and a new nation is born

January 25, 2011

After a break in Ireland, Richard O’Dwyer SJ was back in Lobone, Southern Sudan, in good time for the crucial referendum about the country’s future. The development goes far beyond...

New head at JCFJ

January 11, 2011

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (JCFJ) has a new director: John K. Guiney SJ, who will also continue to be director of the Jesuit Mission Office. For the...

Collecting in the cold

January 11, 2011

The Annual Belvedere College Sleep-Out and Fast 2010 raised €111,000 for charities for the homeless: Fr. Peter McVerry Trust, Focus Ireland and Home Again Society. Facing the worst conditions ever...

Jesuit Refugee Service has provided emergency relief in the form of food, medicine, tents and debris-removal tools to thousands of citizens in Port-au-Prince to aid their recovery from the devastating...

The Holocaust by bullets

January 26, 2010

On Monday evening, 18 January 2010, the day after the Pope’s historic visit to the Rome Synagogue, another historic visit occurred. Representatives from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, prelates from...

JRS serves 16,000 quake victims

January 21, 2010

The Jesuit Refugee Service has provided emergency relief in the form of food, medicine, tents and debris-removal tools to about 16,000 citizens of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to aid their recovery from last...

News from the Jesuits in Haiti

January 19, 2010

[from SJWeb.info] We reprint a letter from Father Kawas François, S.J. to the French Canada Provincial, Father Daniel LeBlond, S.J., describing the condition of the Jesuits, their residences and apostolates...

Pioneering efforts in South Africa

January 12, 2010

Mayo man and active Pioneer Muredach Tuffy recently returned from South Africa where he was building homes for – and links with – the people of South Africa. Muredach, a...

Strong finish to 2009 for JRS Ireland

January 12, 2010

Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland has extended a “huge thank-you” to all those who made donations to its Christmas Toy Appeal. With their help, the JRS was able to distribute presents...

Spirituality and suicide

December 22, 2009

“I only began to heal after the suicide of my young son, when I accepted that I would never really know the answer to my question – ‘Why?'” So says...

Restoring women to a recovered diaconate

April 2, 2026 - Dr Phyllis  Zagano continues her straight-talking exposition of the history of deacons in the church. She seeks to 'recover' the diaconate and 'restore' women to it.

The privilege of life-changing work

March 13, 2026 - Allan Ggita SJ is in Ireland speaking about his privileged life working with vulnerable communities in one of the largest slums in Kenya.

Our Mother Too: Mary Embraces the World

March 4, 2026 - Author Eric Clayton talks about his book that introduces children to Mary, the mother of Jesus, through eight apparitions around the world.

The challenge of co-creating

February 13, 2026 - James Hanvey SJ's exploration of the 'mission of creation' in St Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises is an integration of theology, spirituality, and cosmology.

‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’

February 13, 2026 - The Vatican's second commission on the diaconate recently published a letter revealing a 50/50 split on whether women could 'image Christ'.

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