Serving those furthest behind in South Sudan
As we get closer to Christmas, places like South Sudan lie heavy on my heart. As the youngest country in the world, getting its independence 12 years ago, it’s...
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Author: Yanira Romero
Memories that stay with you forever
My first connection with Jesuit missionaries goes back to my time in India over 40 years ago. At the beginning of a two-year period teaching in Kolkata, I was...
“My craft means the world to me”
Meet Pascazie Uwimana a refugee mother of three girls and five grandchildren from Rwanda who has lived in Nairobi, Kenya since 1997. I am a tailor who specializes in...
Dreaming of home: Families flee Sudan
Christmas should be a time of peace and time spent with our loved ones. Of Christmas lights and markets and feeling cosy at home. Sadly, in other parts of...
Rebuilding Hope: JRS Syria’s Earthquake Response
Six months ago, a 7.8 degree magnitude earthquake struck Syria, affecting tens of thousands in Homs, Al-Kafroun, Damascus and Aleppo. “The response of the people of Ireland to the...
Rumbek – a bright future ahead
Visiting Akol Jal on the outskirts of Rumbek, South Sudan was very moving. As Headteacher James Majang showed us around the Multi-educational and Agricultural Jesuit Institute in South Sudan...
Thank you for the gift of water!
The East African region is faced with an urgent need to address the effects of climate change as extreme weather brings long periods of drought and flash flooding that...
Syria Earthquake Appeal
Irish Jesuits International has launched an appeal to help those impacted by the devastating earthquakes in Syria on Monday, 6 February 2023. You can phone 00 353 1 8366509...
Syria Winter Clothes Christmas Appeal
In Syria this winter, children are at risk of hypothermia because they do not have warm clothes. For their parents, this threat to their lives is a bigger worry...
Syrians struggle against the bitter cold
“Where did Fadi go?”, was my question, as I turned around to discover that Fadi who was my guide in a extremely poor neighbourhood of Damascus was no longer...
Ngongo’s story: Jewels that dream of the Congo
Ngongo is a 52-year-old Congolese refugee living in Nairobi. He escaped the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in early 2000, running away from political persecution as he belongs to...
Jesuits serving as witness in South Sudan
‘You Shall Be My Witnesses’ The 10th October is the feast of St Daniel Comboni, an Italian missionary and one of the first to come to Sudan. He was...