Social Justice

Vote for justice

February 22, 2011

With the General Election in full swing, the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has called on whoever gets into government to give priority to those who are suffering most in these...

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African exchange

February 8, 2011

Claire Broderick and the students of Elements Xavier, Belvedere College, along with John Guiney SJ and Deirdre Connolly from the Jesuit Mission Office, are working on a link project with...

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Why care?

January 25, 2011

Labour’s Eamon Gilmore was due to be the launcher, but at the last minute the drama in Leinster House pulled him away. So it was the Crescent Transition Year students...

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JRS spreads Christmas cheer

January 25, 2011

JRS Ireland Dublin office ran a successful Toy Appeal, receiving toys for more than one hundred asylum-seeking and refugee children. The organiser of the appeal was Audrey Hogan of MAGIS...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Haiti update

January 26, 2010

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...

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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...

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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...

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