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Interfaith Summit
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Interfaith Divestment, towards a climate-smart and resilient Philippines
November 24, 2020 · 2:00 PM
Features
Laudato Si’ Featured Member of the Week: Dr. Peter Nitschke
“I always believed that faith is about conservation and healing. I want to contribute to the healing of the planet and be a testimony that Christianity provides a powerful answer to the challenges of our times when people put that faith into action.”
[FEATURE] LLS Gamechanger: Brex Arevalo – Sustainability and Spirituality
If you are part of a faith-based organization or advocating for the SDGs, there’s a big chance you would’ve already met this week’s Living Laudato Si’ featured member. BREX AREVALO is an active member of Ecojesuit, the global ecology network of Jesuits and partners,...
Community Action: Response to the Ecological Crisis
In this Season of Creation, Fr. Amado L. Picardal, CSsR shares with us how the Redemptorist Mission Team encouraged community action to respond to a local ecological crisis.
Jing Henderson: Starting Young and Teaching the Young
Get to know more about Jing Henderson, Living Laudato Si Philippines' first featured member of the week.
The Recoletos Way: Bro. Tagoy’s 25 Years for Our Common Home
Through his vocations and advocacies, Brother Jaazeal Estelou Jakosalem has exemplified what it means to live a life in service to humankind, to all Creation, to the truth, and to God.
NEWS · UPDATES
Pope Francis calls for lower emissions, higher ambition in UN summit
“The time has come for a change of course.
Let us not rob the new generations of hope in a better future,”
One Year of CBCP Pastoral Letter on Ecology in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
On July 16, 2019, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines released the CBCP Pastoral Letter on Ecology: “An Urgent Call for Ecological Conversion, Hope in the Face of Climate Emergency”.
Laudato Si’ Goals launched for “total sustainability”
The Vatican officially launched the Laudato Si’ Goals as part of the week-long celebrations of the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical on 16 May.
Climate pilgrims meet Madrid Filipino Catholic community
Filipino representatives of faith-based and civil society groups addressed the Filipino community in Madrid, Spain on the climate emergency.
Philippine faith communities declare climate emergency
MANILA – Leaders of various religions and faith communities in the Philippines assembled for the first time in a landmark dialogue and declaration of climate emergency with their unified stand and action against climate climate crisis and environmentally destructive...
PRESS
First “Living Chapel” in Asia rises in Romblon
PRESS RELEASE / 07 November 2020On a hill of prayer in Central Philippines, a “living chapel” rises - first in Asia, third in the world. ROMBLON, Philippines - A new Laudato Si’ Living Chapel was inaugurated in the typhoon-hit Philippines, the first in Asia after Rome...
Statement on the Fourth Year of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Administration
On the fourth year of President Duterte's administration, we are reminded of the consequences of unsustainable human activity on our health and planet, and that we must not return to the 'normal' we knew.
Advocacy Calls to Plug the Gaps in Government Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
“This is a time of difficulty but also a time for growing in true discipleship as we strive to follow the Lord in selfless love and service of others.”
Official Statement: On CoViD-19 and Care for Our Common Home
The COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder for us to take care of our environment. Let us remember that the environment is not just referring to Mother Nature and all the biodiversity surrounding us, but also our fellow human beings.
Filipino religious at Madrid climate talks laud CHR report on carbon majors
In a red-letter moment for climate justice, Commissioner Roberto Cadiz of the Commission of Human Rights in the Philippines exposed in a side event at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 25th Conference of Parties (COP25), “Carbon majors may be legally liable and morally liable,... there are acts of obstruction,... willful obfuscation, criminal intent and there is fraud.”
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First “Living Chapel” in Asia rises in Romblon
PRESS RELEASE / 07 November 2020On a hill of prayer in Central Philippines, a “living chapel” rises - first in Asia, third in the world. ROMBLON, Philippines - A new Laudato Si’ Living Chapel was inaugurated in the typhoon-hit Philippines, the first in Asia after Rome...
A Letter to Philippine banks and Catholic institutions to divest from coal
We are calling on Philippine banks and Catholic institutions to go for sustainability and prioritize the long-term health and well-being of our people and planet.
Filipino religious at Madrid climate talks laud CHR report on carbon majors
In a red-letter moment for climate justice, Commissioner Roberto Cadiz of the Commission of Human Rights in the Philippines exposed in a side event at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 25th Conference of Parties (COP25), “Carbon majors may be legally liable and morally liable,... there are acts of obstruction,... willful obfuscation, criminal intent and there is fraud.”
Youth Strike For Climate Philippines National Demands
On “Financing The Future”: Divesting for Sustainability, Investing in Our Common Home
Our Mission
We call on local financial institutions to divest from environmentally harmful activities
Living Laudato Si’ Philippines is a call on our local financial institutions to divest from environmentally-harmful activities to alleviate the rising climate crisis.
Our Programs
Divest-Invest
Keeping track of Catholic investments in financial institutions and companies.
#LS211
Nine doable and effective ways on how to show our love and care to our common home.
Laudato Si Schools
A framework based on Laudato Si’ to be integrated in the strategic plan of Catholic schools.