Students at Rockhurst University, in Kansas City, Mo., learned about the harsh realities of refugee camp life at the Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (JRS/USA) Refugee Campout, held during the university’s Social Justice Week in April. Part....
Jesuit-founded St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School, located in the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is taking an uncommon approach to serving those in need: the school enrolls only HIV/AIDS orphans, giving them a free....
The U.S. Jesuit Conference and the Kino Border Initiative welcome today’s introduction of a bipartisan Senate immigration bill. Immigration reform has been a difficult issue to address, and this bill provides hope that an immigration....
Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., has adopted a bold plan to achieve climate neutrality — zero greenhouse gas emissions — by the year 2050. Gonzaga President Thayne McCulloh recently approved the university’s first comprehensive Climate....
Men and women for others are hitting the road to become runners for others on April 6, 2013, when the first Ignatian 5K road race and one mile walk will be held in Baltimore. All....
Editor’s Note: The U.S. Congress and the Obama Administration are working to agree to a deal that would avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the convergence of an estimated $1.2 trillion in tax increases and spending....
On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her daughter were brutally murdered by Salvadoran armed forces at Central American University in El Salvador, victims of a bloody civil war that raged from....
Loyola University New Orleans students teamed up with local Belizean co-teachers for the fifth year in a row to run a two-week day camp for more than 250 local primary school students. Each pair of American-Belizean teachers had their own class of 20-25 students, teaching math, English, and arts and crafts.
Seven Georgetown students and two staff members visited the site in El Salvador where assassins gunned down six Jesuits in 1989 for their opposition to war and support for social justice during spring break in....
