30 March 2020

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Michael J. Kelly SJ, who is based in Lusaka, Zambia reflects on how the Coronavirus pandemic, like the crises before it, will be transformed into bright hope. "When I...

23 March 2020

Eco Stoves Protect the Environment
The Jesuit Centre for Ecology and Development (JCED) in Malawi is distributing locally made fuel-efficient ceramic cooking stoves, known as chitetezo mbaula, among poor households in the Kasungu District...

23 March 2020

Ecology and Care in Philippines
The chemical agricultural business has arrived in full force, promising the world; conditions are but a whisper. The promise of a fortune wins many followers and for most it...

23 March 2020

Malawi’s Ecology Saviours
“We want our dreams to be so big they scare us”, says Adrian Makasa Chikwamo SJ, a Zambian Jesuit who is Director of the Jesuit Centre of Ecology and...

23 March 2020

Farming Provides a Social Network
This precarious situation and the long history of war and conflict inspired the Society of Jesus in Eastern Africa in 2010 to open a new project to empower South...

16 March 2020

Opening Doors in Maban

Noelle Fitzpatrick, Country Director for JRS South Sudan, pays tribute to her colleague, Fr Tony O’Riordan SJ who spent the last two years working with JRS in Maban where...

10 March 2020

Moving Forward in South Sudan

"Nothing can prepare you for what you will see and experience on the refugee camps of Maban in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State. There is just dust, a scattering of...

05 March 2020

International Women’s Day 2020
On International Women’s Day, we hear from women who are living on Doro, Batil and Kaya Refugee Camps in Maban, South Sudan about their struggles and hopes. They are...
Fr Michael J. Kelly SJ with Kenneth Kaunda, first President of Zambia.

24 February 2020

Michael J. Kelly Featured on Stamp
The pioneering work of Irish Jesuit, Michael J. Kelly SJ, as an educator and a campaigner for HIV/AIDS in his adopted home of Zambia, has been honoured on a...

03 February 2020

Resilience in South Sudan
Noelle Fitzpatrick visited the Irish Jesuit Missions office recently to discuss her work as Country Director with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in South Sudan and update us about...

10 January 2020

Rebuilding After Kerala Floods
August 2018 saw the Indian state of Kerala endure the worst flooding since 1924. Almost 500 people were killed. Homes, schools and businesses were destroyed leaving many people with...

16 December 2019

Thanks for the Flood of Support
Thousands of people, such as this mother and her children, have been forced to seek higher ground. Photo: Jesuit Refugee Service The response to our emergency appeal for the...