Women's History Month

God, Creator of all in your image and likeness,

We ask your blessing and your grace for women in our global community who toil and struggle to bring about a new world of justice and peace.

We also remember all the women who are constrained from speaking out.

Help us to work for the day they can live their lives in dignity and freedom.

We remember all the women who have been able to give voice to the call for justice--and who do so today.

Reflect on more in the Women's History Calendar from Education for Justice. 

Meet the Singing Anti-Fracking Nuns

Our religious convictions lead us to reject all plans for expanded extraction of fossil fuel or infrastructures such as pipelines that require the plundering of God's creation and the endangerment of human communities. We advocate instead for immediate regional and national plans for the transition to renewable sources of energy. Discover more.

"We can't talk about the poor. We must be poor with the poor and then there is no doubt how to act. We need to be poor with the poor and re-appropriate a kind and tender relationship with Mother Earth."                                    ~Sr. Dorothy Stang

For a Lenten Reflection on the environment Download a Life for People and All Creation from EFJ.

On 6 February, students and teachers from schools in North Lanarkshire and Renfrew Districts came to the Conforti Institute, where they were introduced to the Just Scotland? initiative, to promote the global dimension of the independence referendum. Colm Regan, Coordinator of Irish NGO 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World, which is supporting the project, explained to an interested audience that the most important objective was for Scots, particularly young voters, to gain a clear understanding of the values that Scotland could bring to international development as well as the priority issues to address. Regardless of the outcome of the referendum, Scotland's future constitutional status could have implications far beyond Scotland's borders, an aspect of the referendum debate which has been largely ignored so far. Through the Just Scotland website young people in particular have an opportunity to debate and decide on their own views and priorities and share them with others. These will be collated and presented to politicians before the referendum takes place in September. Participants at the launch were encouraged to help spread the word about the website to their own network of friends and to other schools and groups. The project is coordinated by John Dornan, former Project Manager for Global Education at Conforti. He can be contacted at info@justscotland.org 

The Road Less Traveled

Think the roads you ride on need repair? See where the journey of Joeven Matugas, Xaverian Missionary in Sierra Leone, West Africa from the Philippines leads him.