An amazing couple of months in Cambodia

I am a volunteer teacher trainer and English teacher in Xavier Jesuit Secondary School in the north west of Cambodia. I arrived just over five months ago from Ireland...

“Go to the frontiers” exhorts Jesuit Pope

John K Guiney SJ meets Pope Francis at the Jesuit General Congregation 36. Image:CNS/Itua Egbor SJ An historic meeting in Rome Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope, addressed the...

World Health Day 2017: Let’s talk about depression

Community Counsellors in Kakuma Camp. (Michael Oyoo/JRS) Sometimes people just need to talk and be listened to. World Health Day on 7th April recognises this and has as its...

Water is life: ‘Maji ni uhai’

The Swahili saying ‘Maji ni uhai’ – ‘Water is life’ captures the absolute necessity of having continuous, safe water in eastern Africa. It can’t be taken for granted. Located...

Educating men and women for others

Take a tour to each education project the Irish Jesuit Missions is linked with. Click through on the map and read about them, look up their websites, view their...

International Women’s Day 2017: Safe Havens for women

Photo: Jesuit Refugee Service International Pope Francis reaffirms the church’s stance against all forms of abuse against women in the encyclical Amoris Laetitia: “we must…see in the women’s movement...

Endings and beginnings in the Far East

John Guiney SJ from the Irish Jesuit Missions office visited fellow Jesuits and Jesuit works in the Far East this month – China and South East Asia. Over 125...

St Ignatius College

St Ignatius College, Zambia aims to provide academic excellence and quality education of the whole person in the Jesuit tradition. It wants to educate leaders who are emotionally intelligent,...

Loyola Secondary School

South Sudan is one of the most conflicted countries on the continent of Africa. But at Loyola Secondary School (LSS) in Wau, lay teachers and Jesuits have been working...

Ocer Campion Secondary School

Ocer Campion Jesuit College fills a desperate need for secondary education in the war-ravaged area of northern Uganda, around the city of Gulu. It is a co-educational Catholic boarding...

Loyola High School

At Loyola High School in Mabibo Farasi, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, students are encouraged to aim for high academic achievement while developing their spiritual and emotional lives. The ultimate...

St Peter Claver High School

A Jesuit boarding school is located on a 500 acre campus about 15 kilometres from the centre of Dodoma, the legislative capital of the United Republic of Tanzania. Meet...