Category - Jesuits

Zimbabwe crisis echoes down the years

Simon Barrow — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:21:54 +0100

The tragic situation in Zimbabwe was being foretold as long as fifty years ago by the writer Frantz Fanon, whose theories about the end of colonialism have proved remarkably prophetic.

Church agency launches resource to help failed asylum seekers

staff writers — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:55:14 +0000

A set of ten action points has been issued by a Christian agency suggesting ways that failed asylum seekers and refugees can be helped. Churches and others in the UK are being urged to visit detainees in removal centres.

Jesuits meeting in Rome to choose new head

Ecumenical News International — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:45:21 +0000

The Jesuits, one of the largest and most powerful Catholic orders, is holding a meeting in Rome this month, at which it is to elect a new superior general to head its 19,000 members - whose influence is well beyond its numbers.

Get the Pope on your Pod for Christmas

staff writers — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:40:08 +0000

Commuters amongst others will have the opportunity to reflect on Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Deus Caritas Est this Advent, courtesy of the British Jesuits.

Rome accused of bullying Latin American liberation theologian

staff writers — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:12:19 +0000

The Vatican has issued a censure against Jon Sobrino, a founding figure of liberation theology – the movement which argues that the church should be on the side of the poor and downtrodden