Social Justice
Responding to ecological challenges in Asia Pacific
Drought and flooding are the two most significant ecological challenges in Asia Pacific, according to participants in the first Reconciling with Creation Reflection Workshop. According...read more
Directing greater energies to the poor and the peripheries
When Pope Francis visited the Philippines in January 2015, his message to the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus was clear: to go to...read more
The ordeal of a foreign spouse in Japan
Anastasia* is from Latin America. A few years ago, she married a Japanese man in her country and in April 2015, they took their toddler...read more
Jesuit Mission Australia provides aid in flood-ravaged Vietnam
Jesuit Mission is working with local Catholic Church groups to provide urgent emergency response to families affected by severe floods in Central Vietnam. Over 600,000...read more
The most heart-warming Mid-Autumn Festival
The mooncakes might have been hard and the lanterns dim but this celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival was the most heart-warming one the migrant workers...read more
Sharing a deeper hope
We have already been reminded many times by the Holy Father of the needs at the frontiers, and of an education that serves the long...read more
The simple life as a symbol of resistance
Indonesian scholastic Tiro Daenuwy SJ shares what he learnt from his immersion experience in an Islamic boarding house in Garut, West Java, Indonesia. The five-day...read more
Reuniting families separated by detention
Seeing divided families is a painful sight and this is often the case in immigration detention centres where women and men are held in separate...read more
Jesuits in Korea and Japan confront ethnic reconciliation
August is a symbolic month dedicated to peace movements in Japan. Seventy-one years have passed since the defeat of Japan in the Second World War,...read more