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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February 16, 2018

Pope told Jesuits he regularly meets abuse survivors, journal reports

Pope Francis told a group of Jesuits in Peru that he often meets on Fridays with survivors of sex abuse. The meetings, which he said do not always become public knowledge, make it clear that the survivors’ process of recovery “is very hard. They remain annihilated. Annihilated,” the pope had told the Jesuits on 19th... Read More

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December 15, 2017

Pope: Helping refugees means converting hearts hardened against them

With so much suffering, poverty and exploitation in the world, missionary work must also include reaching out to people whose hearts are closed to receiving immigrants and refugees, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Myanmar. “Unfortunately, in Europe there are countries that have chosen to close their borders. The most painful thing is that to take... Read More

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February 3, 2017

South African Jesuits shocked at actions that led to 94 patient deaths

South Africa’s Jesuit Institute said it is appalled at government actions that led to the deaths of 94 mentally ill patients in Gauteng province, and the bishops’ justice and peace commission called for compensation to affected families. Deaths caused by dehydration, septic bed sores and uncontrolled seizures followed the transfer of more than 1,300 patients... Read More

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October 22, 2016

Jesuit church no longer open for talks on South African university crisis

After chaos broke out in a Catholic church as it hosted a meeting to resolve a university crisis, South Africa’s Jesuits said the church would no longer be open for these talks. The “safe and neutral space” of Holy Trinity Church in Johannesburg “has been violated by those who declared God’s house to be exclusively... Read More

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