An alumnus of San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco, Father John Jimenez is a chaplain and math teacher at Archbishop Riordan High School. A priest at the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Father John Jimenez teaches Christians to resist what he calls “the expanding bubble of desire,” which is the pursuit of vainglory aiming to get a technological advantage over their neighbors. The desire to have a technological advantage over others, conquer more territory, and have geopolitical dominance is at the heart of the wars of the past, and the current manufactured pandemic
Today, technology and social media are feeding people’s desires and expanding a global bubble of desire. This leads people on a path of exploitation, where they use others as objects to get what they want. resulting in forces that displace people from their communities,
The Way forward is to embrace the way of spiritual poverty.
Here are some examples.
The Middle East, and East and Central Africa have for decades been displaced and in the middle of conflicts of greater economic powers. Here are projects that we can help
Catholic Near East Welfare Association www.cnewa.org
1011 First Ave
New York, NY 10022
assists in the education of seminarians at St Peter Seminary in Baghdad and the formation of novices of Dominican Sisters of St Catherine in Iraqi Kurdistan
assists the Mother of Mercy Clinic in Zerqa, Jordan
assists in food aid , blankets and kerosene heaters to Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
helps parishes in Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth and Tel Aviv
helps the Afro-Asian Migrant Center in Beirut, Lebanon
assists a religious community establish a poultry farm in Eritrea,
assists a special needs child care program in Ethiopia
assists the Syro Malabar Social Service Society help families affected by floods in India
To help the underground, persecuted church in China, please see the website of the Cardinal Kung Foundation
to help projects that I am involved in, please see SFSudanRelief.com on google sites or email me at jojimenez4@yahoo.com if you would like to help with a project for the poor in the Archdiocese of Guayaquil, Ecuador
Father John Jimenez 