Resources

To learn more about Jesuit Refugee Services and what other organizations are doing to help the poor of our world, click on the links below.

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Jesuit Refugee Service – www.jesref.org
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organization with a mission to accompany, serve, and defend the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people. JRS undertakes services at national and regional levels with the support of an international office in Rome. Founded in November 1980 as a work of the Society of Jesus, JRS was officially registered on March 19, 2000 at the Vatican State as a foundation.

Catholic Relief Services – www.crs.org
The official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.

Catholic Charities USA – www.catholiccharitiesusa.org
This highly-recognized Catholic social justice/charity organization provides social services to millions of needy Americans.

The Catholic Worker – www.catholicworker.org
Started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, the Catholic Worker Movement maintains 185 communities through the U.S. and abroad “committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken.”

St. Vincent DePaul national organization – www.svdpusa.org
The national organizational Web site for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Network – www.networklobby.org
A Catholic social justice lobby run by religious sisters in Washington, D.C.

Caritas Internationalis – www.caritas.org
A confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories.

Pax Christi USA – www.paxchristiusa.org
The national section of Pax Christi International, the Catholic peace movement