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

Cambodia: the Xavier School Project
Deirdre Ryan from Dublin is working as a volunteer in Cambodia. She writes about her new life at the Xavier Jesuit Project, Cambodia. In May 2015 I made the...

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....
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19 February 2016

To learn. To love. To serve
We invite you to take a trip to Saint Peter Claver boarding High School in Dodoma, Tanzania. “Water is life” at St Peter Claver Located in one of the...

11 February 2016

World Radio Day: Radio Chikuni Journalists get on their bikes in Zambia (1)
  Bridging the information gap In Monze, Zambia, the vision of Chikuni Community Radio Station is to enable the community of Chikuni to be fully developed in all aspects of...

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...

23 January 2016

Hands up at Loyola Jesuit Secondary School!
  After several years of an empty plot and then three years of busy construction work, Loyola Jesuit Secondary School (LJSS) moved from dream to reality last year. And...