Caritas Nigeria directors planting tree with a Bishop. In the Nigerian landscape, where environmental challenges vary from desert encroachment to gully erosion and flooding, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN)...
Integral ecology, a key concept within Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, pushes against the conventional boundaries of environmental discourse. “Chapter Four: Integral Ecology” of Laudato Si’ unfolds as the encyclical’s core response...
The Laudato Si’ Action Platform is a program of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Upon the foundational publication of Laudato Si’, both institutions and individuals sought tools to embark...
At the recent COP28 climate conference, partners of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform supported Pope Francis by calling for a just end to the fossil fuel era and for climate justice. ...
COP28, the annual conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, ended this week. The Vatican’s voice for creation and all who share it was heard throughout the...
This year’s UN climate change summit, COP28, is not only a gathering of world leaders and environmental experts, but also a platform for a powerful moral message from Pope Francis. Although unable...
The 28th annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations’ framework on climate change, better known as COP28, begins this week. It is critical that the moral message of integral ecology...
The Laudato Si’ Action Platform’s 2023 Celebration Webinar marked a significant milestone in the journey toward integral ecology. The online event, streamed globally with live translations in multiple languages, united participants worldwide...
In Pope Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum, the Holy Father reiterates the paramount responsibility of the Catholic Church in addressing environmental challenges. From November 30 – December 12 in Dubai, the...
The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor have never been louder. Throughout Laudate Deum, Pope Francis’s recent apostolic exhortation seen as an appendix to Laudato Si’, the pope...
Working groups for the sectors served by the Laudato Si’ Action Platform offer precious perspective and expertise to guide and improve it. Here, members of working groups share some of the most...
Pope Francis’s Laudate Deum exhortation calls on governments and other stakeholders to step forward and responsibly address the climate emergency. This crisis afflicts God’s beloved creation, and our poorest and most vulnerable...