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The Acholi people are indigenous to Lobone. But, because of the civil war between the Sudan government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, thousands of people fled their homes, with many going to refugee camps in Uganda. In 2001, JRS was invited by the Diocese of Torit to assist the community in both providing quality basic education and in pastoral activities. After the signing of a peace accord between the Government of Southern Sudan and…
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Fr. PS Amalraj, S.J., Regional Director of Jesuit Refugee Service – South Asia, discusses the role of JRS in helping to repatriate and resettle tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, some of whom have been living in refugee camps for 15 years or more. JRS/USA has been instrumental in making it possible for Bhutanese refugee teenagers to pursue higher secondary education in local schools in Nepal and nearby India; this education will allow…
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Br. Michael Schöpf, S.J., the Regional Director of Jesuit Refugee Service – Europe, discusses the goals of JRS in Europe, and the overall mission of serving, accompanying and advocating for the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people.
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Father Elías Lopez-Perez, S.J., the Assistant International Director of Jesuit Refugee Service, discusses the major role forgiveness and reconciliation play in the peace process, and how they are all inter-related.
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The Kino Border Initiative is a partnership of several Catholic organizations, including the Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist and the Society of Jesus, who seek to respond to the call of Christ, who is present among those who are suffering from the consequences of contemporary immigration policy, border enforcement efforts, and the reality of undocumented migration, apprehension, detention and deportation.
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