Our Mission

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation and a  ministry of the Society of Jesus, with a mission to accompany, serve and defend the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people.

JRS provides assistance to refugees in refugee camps, to people displaced within their own country, to asylum seekers in cities and those held in detention centers.

The mission of JRS is motivated by the gospel teachings of building a kingdom based on love, peace and justice.
 

The mission of JRS embraces all who are persecuted because of race, religion, membership in social or political groups; to the victims of armed conflicts, erroneous economic policy or natural disasters; and to internally displaced persons, that is, civilians who are forcibly uprooted from their homes by the same type of violence as refugees but who do not cross national frontiers