Pope Francis warms the hearts of Jesuits in Rome

Pope Francis visits delegates at the Jesuit General Congregation 36.Image:CNS/Itua Egbor SJ  Fr John K Guiney SJ blogs about a very special visitor at the Jesuit General Congregation in...

Acquiring new skills at Kakuma Camp

The JRS Safe Haven house dozens of children in need of protection and guidance in Kakuma refugee camp. (Angela Wells/JRS) The sprawling refugee camp of Kakuma in Kenya is...

Jesuits worldwide meet and greet in Rome

The gathering of Jesuits from all over the world began last weekend, blogs Fr John Guiney SJ from Rome. It is wonderful to meet so many from the diversity...

Jesuits gather in Rome

Jesuit Curia, Rome/Liam O’Connell SJ Could St Ignatius Loyola have envisioned that 476 years after his founding of the Society of Jesus, 212 participants would congregate in Rome to...

Pope Francis Care for Creation Season

Photo credit: Martin McNamara ‘A Mystical Sunrise’ During this Season of Care for Creation, Pope Francis calls us to respect and protect Earth, our common home. As Loyola Jesuit...

Cambodia: Buddhist and Christian approaches

Fr Ashley Evans SJ was on leave in Ireland during the summer and updated the Irish Jesuit Missions office on the Xavier Jesuit School project in Sisophon, Cambodia. He...

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...