Jesuit Volunteer Community

JVC is a one-year development programme based in the UK in situations of social need.  Volunteers live in community, sharing a life of prayer …

CAFOD and Climate Change at the Union: Wednesday 7th Week, 7:45.

CAFOD has teamed up with a number of other Societies to co-host a discussion on Climate Change at the Oxford Union, beginning at 7:45, Wednesday, 25th November.
“Faith-based and secular perspectives on climate change and environmentalism”
As we approach December’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, hailed as the most important political meeting in our lifetime, it’s more [...]

One Voice Event Postponed

Because of unforeseen circumstances, it will not be possible for the planned One Voice event to take place in Oxford tomorrow, 18th November.  One Voice apologises for this, but hopes to reschedule for February next year. Please watch this spot…
Here is the background to the event:
The OneVoice Movement will be bringing two of its Youth [...]

20th Anniversary of the Murders of 6 Jesuits, their houskeeper and her daughter, November 16th 1989

On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests – Ignacio Ellacuria, Segundo Montes, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, Juan Ramon Moreno, and Amado Lopez – were murdered by the Salvadoran military on the campus of the University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador, El Salvador. Their housekeeper, Elba Ramos, and her daughter Celia Marisela [...]

5th Week

A Catholic Response to Abortion
Please join OUPLS and the Newman Society at the Catholic Chaplaincy on Tuesday 10th November at 8.30pm.
Wednesday 11th November
Oxford Life Group AGM    Blackfriars 7:30
Andrea Minichiello Williams will speak on the topic, Cheap life – what price life in a consumerist society?

Tanzania Project

The Chaplaincy is developing a link to the Nyakahoja Primary School in Mwanza, Tanzania and has already sent students out there to teach this last Summer. We also want to raise money to help them build a new Secondary School. Information evening this Thurs 29th Oct at 8:00 pm at Pasta Plus

AGM of the Oxford Life Group

The Oxford Life Group AGM, to be held at Blackfriars, St Giles, Oxford on Wednesday 11nd November 2009 at 7.30pm.
We are very fortunate this year in having as our speaker Andrea Minichiello Williams, who will speak on the topic, Cheap life – what price life in a consumerist society? As you will see from [...]

Pro Life

Pro Life
The OU Pro-Life Society is an independent society which works closely with Catholics and other student-run religious groups to promote the pro-life issues within the university, through meetings, marches, involvement with elections and distribution of literature.
Contact: Matthew Brown (Regents)
Michaelmas Events

1. Fresher’s Drinks
A chance for new and old members to meet and mingle.
Please join us [...]

Oxford Citizens

Tanzania Project

Sister Beata, who runs a Catholic Primary School in Mwanza, Tanzania, is offering an opportunity for a teaching experience in August, 2009. Fr.Roger has already led out a group comprising Martin Pickup, Bonnie Lander, and Marco and Elizabeth Vonhof.  Watch out for the report.
To see photos click on:
Tanzania Photos

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