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05/03/2014: Order your figolli !

The University Chaplaincy is this year selling figolli in aid of JRS and of the poor people university students will work with during their overseas voluntary work experiences in summer.

05/03/2014: School Outreach Programme goes to Gozo

Once again, refugees and asylum seekers are visiting primary and secondary schools in Malta and Gozo to raise awareness of their experience

03/03/2014: Run for others

On Sunday 23rd February, a team of Jesuit priests and lay people called “Jesuits & Friends” pushed themselves through the kilometers of the Vodafone Malta Marathon in an attempt to raise funds for a p...

03/02/2014: Libya: Beyond Imagination

JRS publishes Beyond Imagination, a publication about life for asylum seekers in Libya today

Welcome

The Jesuit Refugee Service in Malta seeks to accompany, serve and defend the rights of asylum seekers and forcibly displaced persons who arrive in Malta. Each arrival's story bears witness to traumatised, disrupted pasts but also to a remarkable will to survive against all odds.

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Our mission

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation with a mission to accompany, serve and advocate on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons.

Our founder

Fr. Pedro Arrupe founded the Jesuit Refugee Service on the 14th of November 1980, in response to the human tragedy of refugees.

The Message

Serve, accompany, advocate: the three words are the programme of work for Jesuits and their collaborators. Serve To serve means to welcome people who arrive here with care; it means to bend down to one in need and to extend your hand to him, wi...