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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...

Laudato Sí and ‘Go Wild for Life’

An old Oak tree. Photo-credit ©: C. Devitt Go ‘Wild for Life’ on June 5th. It’s the United Nations World Environment Day (WED) of awareness and action for the...
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Jesuit education in Dar es Salaam

Africa: we continue our series on achievement and Jesuit programmes working towards success on the continent. We visit Tanzania and travel to Loyola High School, a Jesuit second level...

Year of Mercy: Education in South Sudan

A Sudanese refugee teacher pauses after finishing her courses for morning, before attending JRS teacher training courses in the afternoon. “I’ve lived through three decades of war and I’ve...

Nepal Earthquake one year later

A family in Jaretar, Kavrepalanchowk at candle making training Education Ever since the earthquake that devastated Nepal on 25th April 2015, the Nepal Jesuit Social Institute (NJSI) has been...

A Jesuit moves on

Fr Martin Curry SJ leaves the Irish Jesuit Missions (IJM) this month after 10 years’ dedicated service. He returns to his beloved Galway to take up new duties there....

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...

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...

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...