Today, Justice and Peace ministry is taking on various forms. Education: both formal and informal, defending the rights of people, helping people to organise themselves for the defence of their rights, training people in the idea and the practice of justice and peace. Development work: in rural and urban areas, trade schools, farmers' organisations etc. Refugees: serving refugees, immigrants, prisoners, AIDS victims, drug addicts, young people without training or work in the cities, rural populations in remote areas.

John Skinnader: Maynooth, 1.5

1906 | Netherlands

A junior seminary opens at Weert with 38 students. This is the first Spiritan house in the Netherlands.

1939 | Cameroon

The first Sister Servants of Mary take their vows at Douala. Many confreres are called up at the start of the war, but they are gradually freed from military duties.

1961 | Guinée Conakry

After the suppression of the Catholic Action movements in 1959, the private schools are nationalised in September, 1961. As a result of his vigorous protests, Mgr. de Milleville, the Spiritan Archbishop of Conakry, is expelled from the country.

1999 | Ireland

The opening of SPIRARSI in north Dublin (Spiritan Initiative for Refugees and Asylum Seekers).