Stories

From 26 to 28 January, the COJESEDU, the organizing committee of the II Congress JESEDU-Montreal 2027, gathered in Montréal for a multi-day working meeting. Fr Jimmy Bartolo, SJ, Secretary for Secondary and Pre-Secondary Education, was present throughout the meeting...

The Holy Father’s prayer intention for the month of February 2026, distributed through the “Pray with the Pope” campaign, is dedicated to children with incurable diseases.

“The Mes Arrupe (Arrupe Month) has been a deeply enriching and transformative moment in my formation as a Jesuit scholastic. It offered many consoling and enriching experiences that helped me to integrate the theology I am studying with lived experiences...”

“Since the beginning of the war, the situation in Kyiv has been marked by daily air raid warnings. Those sometimes last all night or several times during the day, but the war has been going on for a long time, and people have to work. Some of them take shelter immediately after the signal sounds first...”

“I was searching for something that would stretch my thinking and help me grow not just academically, but as a person”, says Elizabeth. “I wanted to understand the world better, to see things from different perspectives, and to prepare myself for a future where I could make a real difference.”

Amid turmoil and uncertainty, faith continues to burn as a living flame of hope. “A Flame of Divine Providence” offers a deeply moving reflection by Sr Rosy Sor Moe, SMF, who walks alongside displaced and suffering communities in conflict-scarred Myanmar...

Hidden in some of the world’s most fragile places are missionaries whose courage, compassion, and quiet perseverance reveal the face of Christ. One of them is Sister Orla Treacy, an Irish religious sister of the Congregatio Jesu, who has spent nearly two decades serving in South Sudan...

In every part of the world, often far from recognition or public attention, countless women dedicate their lives to the service of others and to the quiet proclamation of the Gospel. They are teachers, doctors, missionaries, social workers, volunteers, and religious sisters who live...

The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network and the Dicastery for Communication announce the “Pray with the Pope” project, a new initiative at the service of the Holy Father’s mission. Beginning this month, and in continuity with the mission launched by Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV will share...

This August, the Integral Ecology Research Network (IERN), based at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute in Oxford, invites Jesuits in formation – along with a small group of other religious and lay people –, to join its second Integral Ecology Summer School. The two-week programme...

The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius as spiritual anchors to help young victims of suburban gangs find reconciliation: a six-step pathway.

“Why pray for peace if God, who has our best interests at heart, knows what we need? The insights of the Buddhist tradition and the solidarity between us all represented by the communion of saints in the Catholic tradition offer some possible answers...”