As new information emerges, updates are added towards the end of this page. May 3, 2020 – On April 20, the Durham Region Health Department declared a COVID-19 outbreak at René Goupil House, the Jesuit infirmary community in Pickering. Despite the center’s thorough prevention and management efforts, as in many other facilities across the …
March 31, 2020 — Students around the world have had to come to terms with a whole range of disappointments related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As U.S. and Canadian governments respond to this public health crisis, we must ensure that legislative solutions take the needs of these vulnerable communities to heart.
Today, people living in what we now call Canada are faced with Covid-19, but it is far from being the first epidemic to attack those living on this continent. For the first few centuries after the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, up to 95% of the Indigenous populations lost their lives, in a large …
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Coronavirus Resources – Faith Resources and Prayer Requests for COVID-19
During Easter 2020, more than ever, we long for a hope-filled sunrise on the horizon of the current pandemic that has enveloped the world. Still, the deepest hope of the resurrection has forever been that Christ dwells in us at all times and in all circumstances, no matter what is happening around us.
Below are a series of guides to help communities and individuals around the world to celebrate, with the help of video conferencing tools, liturgies of the Word for the days of the Easter Triduum in the face of the limitations imposed by the current pandemic.
April 2, 2020 – My brothers and sisters, Who would have thought a month ago how much the world around us would have changed by now? The COVID-19 pandemic has put so much on hold and has reminded us, as Father General Arturo Sosa said recently in a video message to Jesuits and collaborators, of both our …
A Message from the Provincial: Our Response to Coronavirus Pandemic Read More »
Being together has never been more difficult than in these times of Covid-19. Across the world, however, Jesuits and non-Jesuits are showing their creativity and connecting digitally with their colleagues and the people they serve.