Dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action. Our ministry was founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a simple, decent place to live in dignity and safety.
Foster the democratic and civic education of the German people on the basis of Christianity; promote education, popular and vocational training, including scholarships for students, in particular by opening up access to an academic training for gifted people with the appropriate character; foster the academic sector, especially by means of conducting academic studies; foster international attitudes and understanding between nationalities and to promote European unification, especially by inviting foreign groups and supporting journeys abroad; sponsor cultural aims, especially to promote the preservation and maintenance of cultural works; promote the preservation of monuments; promote development aid.
Develop public awareness about the iniquities and injustices in the existing hegemonic global system; create a better understanding, at the popular level, of how control and domination of the global system by a privileged minority challenges human dignity and social justice everywhere; nurture a deeper appreciation among people of the urgent need for alternative institutions and arrangements at the global level which are more conducive to the emergence of a just world; raise global consciousness on the crucial importance of fostering attitudes, values and ideals at both the personal and community level which will help attain and sustain a just world; inculcate within the human family, a universal, spiritual and moral vision of life rooted in God Consciousness which will serve to guide humankind in its quest for a just world.
Promote inter-religious dialogue, human rights, reconciliation, peace and justice; organise and participation in manifestations related to promotion of inter-religious dialogue; organise and support activities related to inter-religious dialogue, human rights, peace and reconciliation; support developing reform of education in cooperation with state institutions, local and international institutions and organisations; establish educational centres, in cooperation with educational and cultural institutions, that will offer programmes for intercultural, multireligious and civic education, primarily of the youth; support processes of democratisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina: improve and respect human rights, cultural, ethnical, religious and other specificities and differences; promote and support scientific and research works; publish scientific and research materials for educative and non-commercial goals; promote and encourage research and scientific activities of both individuals and scientific-research teams, and cooperate with institutes, libraries, universities and similar institutions.
Open up the view for current religious and cultural life of a region in a political, social, and historical context; promote different understanding of religions and beliefs, and contribute to the communication in intercultural and inter-religious coexistence; contribute to encounter and dialogue; convey a respectful and responsible handling of religious, cultural, and political content.
Facilitate 'living-together' in good harmony, making people aware of their religious or cultural differences, for a moment of fraternity and peace, in a local dialogue; develop civic education through dialogue and reduce the risk of xenophobia, which stems from a mutual ignorance; mobilise communities to facilitate a durable coexistence.
Foster interreligious dialogue at various levels and attempt to make interreligious dialogue an essential dimension of JSCA's One Mission; translate this on the practical level for most Jesuits, it means that the Secretariat strives to help them to understand the significance and the need for entering into dialogue with anyone of good will, especially in the context of religious conflicts, and encourage them to work together towards trust and co-operation, peace and harmony of life.
Promote freedom and liberty, peace, and justice; focus on consolidating democracy, the unification of Europe and the strengthening of transatlantic relations, as well as on development cooperation.
Improve the human rights situation in Latin America and the Caribbean; serve as a meeting, training, and reflection space to promote common actions related to the strategic lines of the global network of Religions for Peace in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Build up a communion in Christ living and working together for a just, peaceful, and reconciled world.
