A Global Ignatian Advocacy Network
04/05/2022.- The Amazon, the Congo Basin, and the Boreal Forest are often described as the planet’s lungs — these regions absorb enormous amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and breathe out oxygen. Their protection is crucial in mitigating climate change. The Justice in Mining Network is pleased to invite you to this webinar organised …
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22/02/2022.- We would like to invite you to the public launching of a new book titled Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development and Ecology. The book is the result of a multiyear and multifaceted initiative by Catholic Peacebuilding Network on the interconnections between peace, conflict, and extractives. Drawing together theology, ethics, and praxis, the …
21/07/2021.- On July 6, we woke up with the terrible news of the death of Father Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old Indian Jesuit, who had been imprisoned since October 2020 in Taloja prison, in the State of Maharastra. His death has shocked the Society of Jesus and the whole world by the cruelty of the circumstances. …
05/24/2021.- The report “Mining, Environmental Health and Human Security in Honduras” published this May investigates the quality of life and water in Abisinia, Nueva Esperanza, and San Francisco Locomapa, three rural communities affected by mining and other extractive activities. This research has been conducted by two Jesuit organizations: the Saint Louis University College for Public …
We share the press release issued this morning by the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat of the Society of Jesus in Rome on the occasion of the worsening health condition of Father Stan Swamy, unjustly imprisoned in India since last October. 84-year-old Jesuit gravely ill in prison with “headache, fever and cough” 17/05/2021, Rome.- Fr …
29/03/2021.- On 29 March 2021, a group of nearly 100 Catholic institutions, led by The Special Commission on Integral Ecology and Mining for the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference (CNBB), the international Catholic network Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) and the German Catholic Church Bank Bank für Kirche und Caritas (BKC) sent a letter to high-ranking Brazilian …
