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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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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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...

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...

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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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...

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...