The Search for Safety: Why Women Flee their Countries of Origin
By Heidi Cerneka and Jannick Eggerman Today, around the world, people are on the move. They are migrating to escape poverty, improve their livelihood and opportunities, or escaping conflict and devastation in their own countries. Women represent almost half of the 244 million migrants and half of the 19.6 million refugees worldwide. (UN Women – […]
How do we respond to the cry of the poor?
Fr. Tom Greene Visits Brownsville and Matamoros By Therese Fink Meyerhoff November 13, 2020 – There is what amounts to a refugee camp on this province’s border with Mexico. There are currently hundreds of migrants from Central America and Mexico living in Matamoros, Mexico, in tents and handmade shelters without electricity and with only limited […]
On 40th Anniversary of JRS, Fr. Kevin Cullen, SJ, Reflects on His Experience
By Jerry Duggan Jesuit Refugee Service has been helping people across the globe for four decades, providing the forcibly displaced with humanitarian aid and moral support. Founded by then-Superior General Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ, JRS seeks to “accompany, serve and advocate the cause of forcibly displaced people, that they may heal, learn and determine their […]
An Imminent God and Other Lessons from Refugees
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff The two and a half years Fr. Jeffrey Harrison, SJ, spent working with Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) taught him a different way of looking at suffering. “You’re dealing with people who every day are on the edge,” he says. “In America, you hear ‘they don’t feel things the way we do.’ […]
Still “Walking with Refugees,” 40 Years Later
By William Bole It is challenging to provide an education to refugees, both children and adults who are escaping violence and unrest in their homelands, but it is also the single best way to aid them in starting over with hope for a better future. The coronavirus pandemic has made the task all the more […]
UCS Province Twins with Jesuits Central American Province
In March 2019, the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province and the Central American Province signed a renewal of a fraternal agreement first signed in 1982.
Inspired by a Refugee’s Faith: Finding Hope in Dark Days
We do not know what our future will be, but one thing is certain, that is we know that God will care for us. Even when we die; we die with these thoughts that God loves and cares for us.
St. John’s College
St. John’s College is a high school and junior college in Belize City, Belize.
New Universal Apostolic Preferences and Apostolic Planning
The Society of Jesus has established four new “Universal Apostolic Preferences” (UAPs) that will guide its mission for the next ten years, Jesuit Superior General Father Arturo Sosa announced earlier this year.
Father Anthony Corcoran, SJ, Named Apostolic Administrator to Kyrgyzstan
Pope Francis on Aug. 29 appointed Fr. Anthony James Corcoran, SJ, to the office of apostolic administrator of the Church in Kyrgyzstan.
Father Anthony Corcoran, SJ, Named Apostolic Administrator to Kyrgyzstan
Pope Francis on Aug. 29 appointed Fr. Anthony James Corcoran, SJ, to the office of apostolic administrator of the Church in Kyrgyzstan.
New Universal Apostolic Preferences and Apostolic Planning
New Universal Apostolic Preferences and Apostolic Planning
