Jesuit Networking

Jesuit Networking is an international initiative to support the emergence of collaborative bottom­-up innovation for the universal Mission within the wider Jesuit apostolic body. Read more…

New book “Ignatian Leadership: Our Way of Proceeding”

The AUSJAL Network of Pastoral peers is pleased to present the e-book “Ignatian Leadership: our way of proceeding”. The document seeks to deepen the understanding of the Ignatian leadership and to accompany the formation, advocacy and management processes that, from the works and institutions of the Society of Jesus, are promoted as means at the service of the mission of justice and reconciliation.

Download book (in spanish): https://www.ausjal.org/wp-content/uploads/Liderazgo-Ignaciano_2019.pdf

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Kircher Network meets in Innsbruck

A new meeting of the Kircher Network, the association of Jesuit university institutions in Europe and Lebanon, took place in Innsbruck between 7 and 9 July.

During the meeting, the topics of the universal apostolic preferences of the Society of Jesus and the advances and projects of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) were discussed. Projects underway, such as the Higher Education for Social Transformation (HEST), were also evaluated, and the roadmap of the association for the coming years was raised.

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Collaboration

JCAP Migration Network: advocating the Global Compacts

In a time of increased globalisation, it is a sign of the times to live with the “stranger”. How do we prepare for the increasing number of migrants and refugees, and what should be our focus?

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Vanessa Gorra

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Tax Justice: more about human dignity and wellbeing than money

Three Jesuit organisations have commissioned research to study correlations between tax and poverty. The final report was presented at a conference taking place in Nairobi, Kenya considering aspects of Tax Justice and Illicit Financial Flows. Ricardo da Silva SJ was at the launch of the report in Nairobi, Kenya.
14,7 million Kenyans live in extreme poverty, that’s 29.4% of the national population. If that’s not sufficiently devastating, the World Bank estimates that in fact, it’s closer to 17 million, or 35.1% of the total population.

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Ricardo Da Silva

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Human Rights

Nüremberg welcomes Xavier Network

The crisis in Venezuela, international disaster relief and child protection in projects worldwide were on the agenda of the meeting in the first week of March. The Xavier Network consists of 13 Jesuit missions and Jesuit NGOs from Europe, Canada and Australia.

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Dani Villanueva

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Jesuit Mission

JAMIA: Discernment, collaboration and action

How do Muslims see us? The silence around the table that greeted the question was deep against the backdrop of firecrackers intermittently exploding outside. Fr Victor Edwin SJ, Director of Vidyajyoti Centre for Christian Muslim Relations in New Delhi, softly reiterated the question to emphasise the need for the research project that he and Fathers Heru Prakosa SJ, Counsellor for Dialogue with Islam at the Roman Curia, and Juan Carlos Pallardel SJ, one of the Coordinators for Dialogue of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia, had been initiating these past two years.

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Vanessa Gorra

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“Leadership by Conversation” ends on an Exhilarating Note in Sydney

This year the Jesuit Conference Asia Pacific Education secretariat offered our educators in the region two brand new workshops. The first was an IPP workshop called LEARNING BY REFRACTION, held last September at Seven Fountains Retreat Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand;

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Network Cases

Building a narrative of decency

Did you know that Asia Pacific is home to around 40 percent of the world’s stateless people? A big part of that population comes from the nearly a million Rohingyas who have been displaced from Myanmar since the latest round

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Migration

“Dignity Has No Borders”: Jesuit Migration Network meets to foster US hospitality on a regional level

 
With the theme "Dignity has no borders,”  the 16th annual -Jesuit Migration Network of Central America and North America meeting, held in Mexico City from Oct. 9-11, gathered almost 100 Jesuit network partners from 12 countries who work on migration

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Erika Meyer

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The legacy of Fr Arrupe in today’s crisis of solidarity

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) was founded by Fr Pedro Arrupe SJ on 14 November 1980 in response to the plight of Vietnamese people seeking to escape their homeland by boat, and also to aid refugees fleeing Ethiopia, Somalia, Cambodia,

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Migration

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