Category: News

20 April 2016

Mother Earth Day and the Paris Agreement
Paris Agreement (google creative commons) This Friday, April 22nd, marks the celebration of Earth Day, the annual event which brings together millions of people from around the globe to...

12 April 2016

South Sudan: Loyola Secondary School
Our series on Achievement in Africa and the struggle towards success focuses in on South Sudan, one of the most conflicted countries on the continent. At Loyola Secondary School...

22 March 2016

Fr Joseph Mallin SJ: looking back 2016-1916
  Fr Joseph Mallin SJ received the freedom of the city award from the Lord Mayor of Dublin Críona Ní Dhálaigh who flew to Hong Kong to meet him...

21 March 2016

Celebrating Easter 2016
  As we celebrate Easter 2016 we remember the men and women who struggled for our national freedom in 1916. This vision and ideal of Ireland’s independence was an inspiration...

16 March 2016

Year of Mercy: Advancing Education for Refugees
In recent days, the world has witnessed increased displacement of thousands of people due to conflicts going on in various countries. And while disruption to normal life, deaths and...

16 March 2016

“Be Merciful, Just as your Father is Merciful”
Pope Francis has put it very simply: “The Church is not in the world to condemn, but to make possible an encounter with the visceral love that is God’s...

16 March 2016

South Sudan: Education is an Act of Mercy
Students study after class in Yambio, South Sudan (Aidan Azairwe/Jesuit Refugee Service) “I’ve lived through three decades of war and I’ve never experienced as much violence as I did...
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15 March 2016

Achievement in Africa: Tanzania, Gonzaga Primary School
Africa: our series on achievement and the struggle towards success on the continent bring us to Tanzania to visit a Jesuit primary school in Dar es Salaam. Education is...

07 March 2016

Women are the strength of their communities
  Pope Francis: “A world where women are marginalised is a sterile world, because women don’t just bear life but transmit to us the ability to see otherwise, they...

27 February 2016

Refugees or migrants? Husbands, fathers, wives, mothers, sons and brothers
  Through its collection of stories, “Journeys of Hope”, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) records the individual voices, hopes and dreams of people seeking new, safe lives in Europe....

03 February 2016

Irish Men Behind the Missions : Fr. Donal Doyle SJ
‘Going to the Far East’ was an expression used by many missionaries in the past to mean they were going to China and South East Asia. In this new...

13 January 2016

World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Sunday 17th January
  The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2016 is “Migrants and Refugees Challenge Us. The Response of the Gospel of Mercy.”...