Our Mission

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation with a mission to accompany, serve and advocate for the rights of refugees and others who are forcibly displaced. Welcome to the website of the Europe Office.

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Our priorities

Access to protection Access to European territories needs to improve, become safer and more fair.

Access to protection

Immigration detention We visit detention centers accross Europe and provide legal, pastoral and psicological assistance.

Immigration detention

Social inclusion We accompany people from their arrival to self-suffiency.

A migrant woman receives a certificate of a Portuguese language class from JRS Portugal academy

Social inclusion

Awareness raising Refugees' voices need to be heard. We aim to create spaces and promote them so that they are heard throughout Europe.

Awareness raising

Featured projects

CHANGE

This project aims to educate young people on the positive contributions of refugees to society and to encourage them to take action within their schools and local communities.
The One Proposal: Jesuit support to Ukraine Crisis

JRS is working together with the Xavier Network, Concordia Moldova, the Society of Jesus in Europe, local civil society and NGOs in a coordinated Jesuit response to the Ukraine Crisis.
Detention Under The Spotlight

JRS visits people in immigration detention across Europe. We witness detention’s negative impact on detainees and the effects of flawed migration systems. By exposing some of it, we hope to gain support in our call to end immigration detention..