Cardinal Turkson gives overview of Laudato Si’: “Humanity is not an afterthought. God did not have two agendas: first the world and then humanity” Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, today addressed a conference on “Care for our Common Home in the context of Large Scale Investments in Mining...
El Cardenal Peter K. A. Turkson, Presidente del Pontificio Consejo de Justicia y Paz, acaba de enviar esta carta a las y los familiares, amigos y compañeros de Berta. Berta Cáceres, líder comunitaria y ambientalista hondureña, fue asesinada y las declaraciones oficiales sobre su muerte no convencen, eludiendo su responsabilidad. Como Red Eclesial Pan...
The President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Turkson, on Friday spoke during a special event in Geneva discussing Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Laudato si’. “Pope Francis puts forward the concept of integral ecology, which clearly respects the human and social dimensions of the crisis,” Cardinal Turkson said. “This is...
Yesterday evening a new text of the Paris agreement was released, and CIDSE, alliance of 17 Catholic development agencies, hopes that some key issues will still be addressed before the closing of the negotiations planned for tomorrow. “We call for leaders, in the little time left, to do everything possible to make the agreement...
“Iron ore, journey with no return: from the Brazilian Amazon to the German automakers” is a production of Misereor. Misereor is a German Catholic Bishops organization, which for over 50 years has been committed to eradicate poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The production depicts in 28 minutes the daily life of the...
The leaders of Catholic agencies from around the world will be in Rome from 12 – 17 May for the 20th Caritas Internationalis General Assembly, titled “One Human Family, Caring for Creation”. It will start on Tuesday evening 12 May with a Mass with Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica. Delegates will elect their...
The Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world and the Amazon River, the world’s largest river in terms of discharge, drains about 6.9 million square kilometers or about 40% of the entire South American continent. But areas outside the basin are included when people speak about the Amazon, and this Pan-Amazonia region ranges...
