The love of Christ urges us on
Celebrated recently across the globe, Earth Day is an annual event honouring the achievements of the environmental movement. The day also seeks to raise awareness of the importance of long-term ecological sustainability. This year’s theme is Invest in Our Planet. With this theme in mind, we think of Religious Sisters of Charity all over the …
We are grateful to those who donated money to Konzalendo for the Care of the Earth project. It was decide that the money would be used to respond to two issues presently afflicting Konzalendo and it’s environment. One was the issue of people cutting down trees and not replacing them and the other is the …
September 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, marks the beginning of the Season of Creation which ended on 4th October, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The Season of Creation is a yearly celebration of prayer and action to protect our natural environment from harm. During this time, Christians …
In her reflection on the gospel for the first Sunday of July, Veronica Lawson RSM writes “the present ecological crisis calls us to new ways of being neighbour. If we are to be neighbour in our times we need to think cosmologically as well as globally and to act locally”. Plastic has become so much …
Biodiversity was this year’s theme for Earth Day and much was written about the need to take action to take steps to preserve and protect biodiversity before it is too late. The United Nations “Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”, released in May 2019 states that one million species may be pushed to …
Earth Day is celebrated on 22nd April annually since it was first established in 1970. Arguably the need to Care for the Earth is the most urgent issue of our time. Unfortunately, the nature of global politics often pushes this need to the back of government agendas as they focus on economics, health, educational and …
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