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December & Advent 2018
The JESC team greets you with an Advent edition of the Leadership Post.
The Leadership Post: Advent Edition Announcement
Applications for the European Leadership Programme are open until the 8th of February 2019. We offer ten fellowships to young leaders, covering eighty per cent of the cost. More.
Video: Peter Rožič SJ and Eleonora Vitale on the three learning modules of the ELP. 
On the Learning segment of the European Leadership Programme
Birgit Van Hout, from the UN Human Rights Office, writes an article about the austerity measures that exacerbated the negative human rights consequences of the 2008 financial crisis for Europe-Infos.
 
The Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration took place in Marrakech, Morocco, the world's first international agreement on migration in general. Read the Vatican's position. 
 
Martin Maier SJ, JESC's secretary for European affairs, writes about the ten million soldiers who died a horrible death in the "primal catastrophe of the 20th century".

 
Video: Edmond Grace SJ, JESC's secretary for justice and ecology, on this week's anger, violence and the modern government’s inability to include everyone. 
Since September 1980, the European Parliament Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast has met every Wednesday. All are welcome. Each person chooses a passage from the Bible. The group discusses the choices over breakfast, ending with prayers for countries, colleagues, individuals or issues. The breakfast ends with the participants reciting the Lord's Prayer in their own language. This week, it was the morning after the Strasbourg shooting. All the prayers and wishes were for the victims of this horrible act of violence against humankind.
Advent is a time of waiting and expectation, but is also a time for a "journey of conversion", Pope Francis declares. "To prepare the way for the Lord who comes,it is necessary to take into account the demands of conversion." (CNA)                                                            More
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