2020 Spring and Summer Newsletter

/ Published in Bridging Borders

2020 Spring and Summer Newsletter

Caring for “Our common home”: Reflections from the Amazon

By Alfredo Ferro Medina SJ

The Amazon, part of our “Common Home,” is a territory that covers 7 million sq km and has 35 million inhabitants. Today, this region and the 350 Indigenous communities that live there are threatened more than ever … Continue reading →

A word from Jenny Cafiso, CJI Director

A couple of months ago, we chose “Caring for our common home” as the theme for this issue. We chose it to mark the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ which calls us to a deep personal and communal transformation and a new relationship with the earth, our common home … Continue reading →

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LMA Youth plant trees

Young people take leadership to care for our common home

One in three Africans, 422 million people, live below the global poverty line. They represent more than 70 percent of … Read more

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SASAC's floriculture program

SASAC: Our Common Home

The disciples of Jesus wanted to learn how He prayed and so asked Him, “Lord, teach us how to pray.” … Read more

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Sannybhai

Fr Stanislaus Jebamalai SJ visits Canada

Fr Stanislaus Jebamalai SJ (Sannybhai), National Coordinator of Lok Manch in India, visited Canada in February for a series of … Read more

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JUST Change Advocacy Symposium

JUST Change – Advocacy Symposium in Ottawa

Canadian Jesuits International brought together secondary and postsecondary students from across Canada from February 9 to 11, to learn about … Read more

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CNCA meeting in Ottawa

Last January 21-22, CJI attended a Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) strategic planning meeting in Ottawa. Representing CJI were … Read more

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Responding to the COVID-19 crisis

CJI continues to adapt to the fluidity of our new normal. We work remotely as we try to always be … Read more

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Students at St Mary High School

Multicultural night at St Mary Catholic Secondary School

St Mary Catholic Secondary School held their annual Multicultural Night last February 24 on the school grounds in Pickering, Ontario. … Read more

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Fr Michael Hawkins SJ

Funeral celebrations will be delayed to a later date. Arrangements have been made through Rosar-Morrison Funeral Chapel (Toronto).

In memory … Read more

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Hope in solidarity: COVID-19 and the Syrian refugee crisis

Fr Nawras Sammour SJ, Regional Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service Middle East and North Africa (JRS MENA), talks about … Read more

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OUR DONORS SPEAK: Tithing as a way to live my faith

The Jesuits have always played an important part in my life. In  1963,  I  graduated  from Campion, a Jesuit high … Read more

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