Women dancing at the JRS South Africa World Refugee Day celebration.

EVENTS

Keep up to date with JRS events worldwide

Events give us the chance to meet with refugees, hear their stories, and build a network of solidarity. By getting to know one another, we have the opportunity to create meaningful relationships and deepen our understanding of forced displacement.

While COVID-19 restrictions limit the possibility to meet in person, we have alternatives ways to connect. From anywhere in the world, you can join an online event and be part of the culture of encounter.

PAST EVENTS

  • 23 September 2020 – World Day of Migrants and Refugees: To know in order to understand. Join JRS International and UISG for the 106th World Day of Migrants and Refugees as speakers discuss Pope Francis’s message about the reality and experiences of internally displaced people.
  • 18 June 2020 – JRS USA hosts World Refugee Day 2020: Welcome and Protect. Experts discuss the current situation on the US-Mexico Border, the impact of these policies on asylum seekers in Mexico, and what we can do to ensure our system of asylum stays intact even during a global pandemic. Go to event page
  • 18 June 2020 – JRS UK hosts World Refugee Week: The Pope, the pandemic, and the people we leave begin. Join Sarah Teather, Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service UK and Pope Francis biographer and journalist, Austen Ivereigh, for a special refugee week conversation, reflecting on the issues COVID has thrown up for the Church and its care for the most marginalised. Go to event page
  • 20 June 2020 – JRS International and UISG host World Refugee Day 2020: Sharing the life of refugees. Speakers give an overview of forced displacement around the world and the impact of COVID-19 on our refugee brothers and sisters. They will offer life experiences and speak to Pope Francis’s message of being close in order to serve. Go to event page
  • 8 July 2020 – Catholic Peacebuilding in the DRC.  This webinar will discuss the Congolese Catholic community’s work for peace in the DRC, especially as new challenges like COVID-19 emerge, and examine how the experiences of Catholic peacebuilding in the DRC might provide insights and lessons elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. Go to event page