Category: News

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...

A way forward for adult refugees in Jordan

Iraqi refugees Tamim (right) and Qais (left) in the corridor at the JRS school in Amman, both are volunteers and part of the JRS Jordan core team. (Zerene Haddad/JRS)...

A museum piece or a hero?

A Museum Piece Early in May  a new state-of-the-art interactive-type museum, EPIC Ireland, was opened in the vaults of the docklands CHQ building in Dublin. The new museum focuses...

Mass in Dromantine Retreat Centre

On Saturday 21st May, Fr John, Carol and Rosaleen from the Irish Jesuit Missions in Dublin travelled to the Dromantine Retreat Centre near Newry to meet our supporters from...

Summer BBQ in Milltown Park

The Irish Jesuit Missions (IJM) held a social gathering with Milltown Park Community for our men home on leave, missionaries in Cherryfield and other friends and colleagues in late...

The forgotten refugees in Africa

A young boy’s drawing shows his view on life before and after displacement/JRS International Fr Endashaw Debrework SJ visited Ireland this summer to create awareness of refugees in Africa...

Ten aid agencies unite to call on South Sudan government

Andrew Ash/Jesuit Refugee Service The Jesuit Refugee Service is deeply concerned at the fragile state of affairs in South Sudan after fighting re-erupted and killed nearly 300 civilians in...

A new phase for IJM Development Education

Irish teachers’ group with Fr Edmund Mallaya SJ and Fr Kevin White SJ, Jesuit Refugee Service The Irish Jesuit Mission office’s Development Education (DE) programme established in 2013 was...

Once a Canisian. Always a Canisian.

The Irish Jesuit Missions’ series “Achievement in Africa” brings us to Zambia to the Jesuit Secondary school of St Canisius in Monze. The present day buildings bear no resemblance in...

Jesuits: the founding fathers in Zambia

The Founding Fathers. The people in the Monze area of Zambia refer to the Jesuits as the ‘Founding Fathers’. The long involvement of the Society of Jesus since 1905...

World Refugee Day 20th June

The 20th June 2016 is a very special Monday. It is the United Nations World Refugee Day when the focus is on refugees’ plight and the ordinary human beings...