The Parliament of the World’s Religions is partnering with the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 to host a webinar on 22 February on the role of faith communities in COP26. Keeping up the pressure: The role of faith communities in COP26 recognizes that in this critical year for climate action, civil society must demand...
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The River above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network (RAOEN) was launched online on 24 November, seeking to engage the Church and the peoples of Asia and Oceania to explore pathways for deeper dialogue and broader interfaith collaboration for forests, oceans, and peoples in the region, Pedro Walpole SJ, Ecojesuit Global Coordinator and key animator...
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Jaime Tatay Nieto SJ On the fifth anniversary of the promulgation of the encyclical letter Laudato Si’ by Pope Francis (2015), a recent article published in the journal Religions on Sustainability, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the Catholic Church’s Ecological Turn analyzes how environmental issues and sustainability concerns were integrated into Christian social thought over the past...
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Radio ECCA is a distance and online adult education center that the Jesuits founded and supported by the Canary Islands Government. Radio ECCA implements different activities on climate change education and awareness campaigns in Macaronesia, composed of the Azores, Madeira, and Canaries islands in the north Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Europe and Africa....
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Ecojesuit welcomes the new coordinator of the Reconciliation with Creation network at the Jesuit Conference Asia Pacific (JCAP), and in this brief JCAP video, Fr Gabby shares his continuing relationship with ecological concerns and communities affected as he leads the Ecology Program at Jesuit Service Cambodia and in his new role in JCAP. I am Gabriel Lamug-Nañawa....
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Heike Pintor Pirzkall Faced with a growing concern for the protection of the environment and in line with the objectives of the Comillas Pontifical University’s strategic plan and the Pope’s Laudato Si’, the Integral Ecology and Sustainability Program was created in September 2019 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences to inform and...
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Brex Arevalo For contemporary dance and theatre artist Kristin Kusanovich, going into climate action from the arts is a “natural leap” as great art has the power to move people into action and artists are critical in creatively communicating climate science and inspiring change. As a theater and dance senior lecturer in Santa Clara...
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Rosalyn Students from Kayah State, Myanmar and from the refugee camp in Mae Hong Son, Thailand recently joined an online youth exchange forum on World Refugee Day and shared actions that they can do towards caring for the environment. The online activity was organized by Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)-Myanmar in collaboration with Karenni National...
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The Episcopal Commission for the Amazon of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (Confêrencia Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil or CNBB) in partnership with other ecclesial and civil society organizations launched Amazoniza-te (Amazonize yourself), an awareness and care campaign for the Amazon on 27 July. The campaign takes place at a time when the...
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Raiza Javier How do we build back from a global health crisis that exposed deeply rooted sufferings long endured by the poor? How do we get out of a pandemic that bared a chronic disease in the prevailing economic system? The answer, according to environmentalists, lies in the way we cultivate the earth, our...
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