With book launch, Jesuits prepare to celebrate Ignatian Year

The roughly 15,000 members of the Society of Jesus, their collaborators and many people who draw on the spiritual heritage left by St Ignatius of Loyola are preparing to mark a special Ignatian Year beginning on 20th May and lasting until the saint’s feast day, on 31st July 2022. Anticipating the celebration, Fr Arturo Sosa, the Jesuit superior general, recently... Read More

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March 21, 2021

Jesuits pledge $100 million to benefit descendants of enslaved people

The Jesuit order is pledging to raise $100 million for descendants of enslaved people once owned and sold by their order as a way to make reparations and help the nation move toward racial healing. The funds will be placed in a new partnership called Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Foundation formed by the Jesuit order and the GU272 Descendants... Read More

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March 14, 2021

Relics from the 40 Martyrs to go on display in online Jesuit exhibition

Jesuits in Britain launch first online exhibition celebrating 50 years since the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs. Prompted by the 50th anniversary of the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs, the Jesuits in Britain Archives has launched its first ever online exhibition in collaboration with Stonyhurst College Collections. The virtual showcase, called ‘How bleedeth burning love’: British... Read More

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February 7, 2021

Vow of poverty: Jesuits to look at its spiritual and practical implications

Many Catholics look at religious orders of men or women and wonder what their vow of poverty means. After all, the brothers, priests and nuns run schools and hospitals, have large convents or abbeys and they all pretty much know where their next meal will come from. “Evangelical poverty” – the vow of poverty – usually will not mean living... Read More

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January 16, 2021

HSBC in dock over climate change policy

The Jesuits in Britain are one of 15 institutional investors with a combined US$2.4 trillion in assets under management that have filed a climate change resolution at HSBC, alongside 117 individual shareholders. The resolution, co-ordinated by responsible investment NGO ShareAction, calls on HSBC to publish a strategy and targets to reduce its exposure to fossil... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

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September 14, 2020

Spanish court convicts ex-Salvadoran colonel of 1989 murders of five Jesuits

A Spanish court has convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for the murders of five Jesuit priests in 1989 – a rare act of justice for an atrocity from El Salvador’s brutal civil war. In a recent ruling, former Col. Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, was found to have planned and ordered the murders of the five... Read More

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May 6, 2020

Christian climate change charity calls on Churches to urgently divest from fossil fuels

Operation Noah is calling on Churches in the UK to urgently divest from fossil fuels in response to the climate emergency. A new report from the Christian climate change charity, titled Church investments in major oil companies: Paris compliant or Paris defiant?, shows the gap between the business plans of major oil companies and the... Read More

News – UK and Ireland

September 4, 2019

South African Jesuits warn against xenophobic rhetoric after attacks

South Africa’s Jesuit Institute condemned the latest flare-up of violence against foreign nationals and urged leaders to stop their xenophobic rhetoric. Police arrested at least 70 people in South Africa’s commercial capital Johannesburg on 2nd September after protesters looted mostly foreign-owned shops and set fire to cars and buildings in the second outbreak of urban... Read More

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With book launch, Jesuits prepare to celebrate Ignatian Year

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HSBC in dock over climate change policy

Spanish court convicts ex-Salvadoran colonel of 1989 murders of five Jesuits

Ex-Salvadoran officer: ‘High command’ gave order to kill Jesuits in ’89

Ex-Salvadoran colonel goes on trial in Spain for 1989 Jesuit murders

Christian climate change charity calls on Churches to urgently divest from fossil fuels

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