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Jesuit Social Services is a social change organisation established by the Australian Jesuits in 1977. [2] Originally based in Melbourne , Australia , it has expanded to include outreach programs in New South Wales and the Northern Territory .
Rerum Novarum Centre, Taipei, increased operations in 1971 but had roots going back to Jesuit social services in Taiwan since the 1950s. The Centre tries to meet the major social and legal needs of native and foreign workers in the greater Taipei area, while also responding to emergencies and to the needs of the aboriginal peoples of Northern Taiwan.
This is a partial list of centres founded worldwide by the Society of Jesus which are directed primarily toward social and economic development for the poor and marginalized. Included in this would be research, training, advocacy, and action for human development, as well as direct services.
In 1996, it ceased most of its operations, because of a lack of funding. Some work continued, but only in three areas: Jesuit Refugee Service, ecological projects at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre and Catholic social teaching. [6] [7] In 1997, the Centre for Social Justice was created separately to carry on the work of the Jesuit Centre.
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is an organization of lay volunteers who volunteer one year or more to community service with poor communities. JVC works in inner city neighborhoods and rural communities in about 36 different cities throughout the U.S. [1] JVC works with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other ...
In January 2012, OCIPE underwent a restructuring. Its office in Brussels became the Jesuit European Social Centre (JESC). Its offices in Budapest and Warsaw became centres in their own right. [3] Eventually, the office in Strasbourg also closed. [4] JESC continues the work of OCIPE as well as working with COMECE, CIDSE and the Chapel for Europe.
St. Xavier's Social Service Society (SXSSS), a Jesuit social work originating at St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall, Ahmedabad, has since 1976 worked to improve the lot of the people in the slums of Ahmedabad city in the areas of education, health, environment, and community organization. Its efforts have also spread to the countryside and ...
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ ʒ u ɪ t s, ˈ dʒ ɛ zj u-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-; [2] Latin: Iesuitae), [3] is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.