A number of Jesuits are working hard to help flood victims in Pakistan. Fr Imran Ghouri SJ writes: "Our focus is to handle as many of the children as we can. The kids are suffering so badly and you can't stop your tears when a child tells you 'my siblings and parents have died in this water. Why did this water kill my people?' What a painful experience for these unlucky ones. [...] In Lahore diocese I am trying to form a group of religious men/women to work together for the flood victims. We will have a meeting on 20 August at Loyola Hall, in Lahore."

General Congregation 35 provided a stimulus for international networking as an apostolic instrument. Following the call to develop "advocacy links of mutual support" (D 3, no. 28), a few international advocacy networks have started functioning and are at different stages of development. The Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat has supported, and continues to support, the establishment of these advocacy networks. Fr. General has endorsed this process, as well as a Common Plan of Action formulated to help the leaders of these networks consolidate the process over the next two years. The networks have been encouraged to continue clarifying the lines of accountability with their respective superiors, and to maintain the principle of subsidiarity.

I remember my first visit to the Klong Prem Prison Hospital with Father Olivier in April 2009 (two months before I started full time Prison Ministr...

Latin America: From 2 to 8 August, the annual meeting of the Social Apostolate of Latin America and the Caribbean took place in San Leopoldo, Brazi...