Tag: Jesuit Refugee Service

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...

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....

World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Sunday 17th January

  The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2016 is “Migrants and Refugees Challenge Us. The Response of the Gospel of Mercy.”...

Beauty and brutality: the confounding contradictions of South Sudan

  Darkness falls early in South Sudan. When the unspeakably bright sun sleeps, there isn’t much to illuminate the hot air. Just fireflies, the headlights of occasional military trucks,...

A statement of the Jesuit Major Superiors of Europe

                        CEP General Assembly – A statement of the Jesuit Major Superiors of Europe October 19th, 2015  Since...

October is Mission Month

  Humanitarian Response To love our neighbour as ourselves is the theme for Mission Month 2015. This mission is being lived out daily by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)...

World Peace Day 21st September

In South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, a student is more likely to find soldiers occupying their school than teachers preparing lessons. Sixty-three percent of schools are occupied by armed...

Journeying into Europe: how to help refugees

Thousands of migrants are reaching our European shores at this present time. The Jesuits through the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) are responding to this crisis with a project in...

Late Night Thoughts on Leaving JRS

 Late Night Thoughts on Leaving JRS By Fr. Gary Smith, SJ “One never reaches home,” she said. “But where paths that have affinity for each other intersect the whole...