Environmental Stewardship. The family, the human community and the environment. SDWP) - Renewing the Earth. Declaration on the Environment. Declaration on the Environment Signed by Blessed Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople June 10, 2002 We are gathered here today in the spirit of peace for the good of all human beings and for the care of creation. Almighty God envisioned a world of beauty and harmony, and He created it, making every part an expression of His freedom, wisdom and love (cf. At the center of the whole of creation, He placed us, human beings, with our inalienable human dignity. At the beginning of history, man and woman sinned by disobeying God and rejecting His design for creation.
God has not abandoned the world. Respect for creation stems from respect for human life and dignity. What is required is an act of repentance on our part and a renewed attempt to view ourselves, one another, and the world around us within the perspective of the divine design for creation. Secondly, we must frankly admit that humankind is entitled to something better than what we see around us. 1. 2. 3. 4.
FORE: Information-Introduction to the Forum. Upcoming event in Vienna: Contextual Liberation Theologies May 15-18, 2014 Opening Lecture by Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Coordinators: Joseph Drexler-Dreis, Jacques Haers, Kristien Justaert Page content Description The Centre for Liberation Theologies develops and carries out research projects concerning contemporary issues in liberation and contextual theologies. Read more about our vision and mission... Top of page Members Students preparing a master thesis or a doctoral dissertation with a focus on liberation theologies can become temporary members of the centre during the period of their research at the KU Leuven.
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EEJN : World Council of Churches and Climate Change. By William Somplatsky-Jarman The World Council of Churches has addressed the issue of climate change for many years and had a delegation once again at the negotiations of the Conference of Parties (COP7) in Marrakech, Morocco. With its continuing focus on global justice it lifted up the plight of the poor and the natural world at COP7. Elias Abramides of Argentina, head of the WCC delegation, addressed the plenary of delegates. He emphasized that religions have a significant role in helping the nations face climate change: "They have to promote care for the earth and establish a language of the heart and of the spirit which will surely have a great influence on the climate change negotiations. " During past negotiations, the World Council of Churches has held interfaith worship services and sponsored public forums to explore religious views and climate change.
Worldwatch Institute. The good in nature and humanity ... World’s Greenest Priest Leads Global Prayer Against Climate Change. September 1st, 2010 By Salvatore Cardoni The man with the long white beard and longer official title has a simple request for his 200 million followers. On Wednesday, September 1, His All Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch—Patriarch Bartholomew for short—asked the world’s Orthodox Christians to pray for the protection of the environment. The prayer is just one of an untold number of good deeds Patriarch Bartholomew has undertaken on behalf of the natural world since ascending to the throne of the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1991.
“He was the first to dare broaden the religious concept of sin—beyond individual and social implications—to include environmental abuse,” says Rev. Dr. Patriarch Bartholomew has talked climate change with countless world leaders, including U.S. But a man doesn’t become the greenest spiritual leader on the planet simply by taking his eco-gospel on the road. . ( rating) Loading ... You might also enjoy: The Green Patriarch | Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Like Al Gore, who named him the "Green Patriarch," the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church is a prominent leader in the environmental movement. Since 1997, he has been bringing principal scientists, environmentalists, religious leaders from all faiths, and policy makers from all over the world together to work on the ecological crisis. Click here to purchase a copy of this video. This film looks at the ecological consequences of the historical split between science and religion, how we came to see ourselves as separate from nature, and how our consumer based economy found its moral justification in a Judeo-Christian view that humans have dominion over the planet’s resources. At the same time it also explores how Bartholomew's activism is inspired by the Orthodox position that we are part of nature, and that God’s intention for humans is to be stewards, or caretakers, of all creation. © 2009 Becket Films and used with permission ( A Little Religion Gives Environmentalism New Fervor.
Washington, D.C.- Religious institutions around the world are going green and providing a push to the environmental movement, says a new report from the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, D.C.- based research organization. "Invoking the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in the Quest for a Sustainable World" documents how these unconventional alliances are growing in frequency and significance to address issues from deforestation in Thailand to green investing by stockholders in New York. "This collaboration could change the world, " says author Gary Gardner, Worldwatch Research Director.
"These groups have different but complementary strengths. Environmentalists have a strong grounding in science. Religious institutions enjoy moral authority and a grassroots presence that shape the worldviews and lifestyles of billions of people. Religions are also tapping their extensive grassroots presence and economic resources to engage issues of sustainability. Nature and human society: the quest ... Religion, values and sustainability. Click on the headline (link) for the full text. Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage Worldwatch's Gardner says shift in values needed to achieve sustainability (video and transcript) Monica Trauzzi, E&E TV The link between religion and sustainability is becoming increasingly prevalent as churches around the country incorporate environmental and sustainability issues into their teachings.
During today's OnPoint, Gary Gardner, director of research at the Worldwatch Institute, discusses his new book, "Inspiring Progress: Religions' Contributions to Sustainable Development. " Gardner makes the case for why he thinks religion could be successful at helping creating a new value system for a society that is accustomed to excess. He cites specific programs in which religion and sustainability have been linked successfully. Not exactly a match made in heaven. But relations are slowly thawing -- in part thanks to, well, thawing. "Is God Green? " Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World. From earliest times, human beings have noticed patterns in nature: night and day, tides and lunar cycles, the changing seasons, plant succession, and animal migration.
While recognizing patterns conferred great survival advantage, we are now in danger from our own success in multiplying our numbers and altering those patterns for our own purposes. It is imperative that we engage again with the patterns of nature, but this time, with awareness of our impact as a species. How will burgeoning human populations affect the health of ecosystems? Is loss of species simply a regrettable byproduct of human expansion? Nature and Human Society presents a wide-ranging exploration of these and other fundamental questions about our relationship with the environment. What are the specific threats to biodiversity? Do we have the tools to protect biodiversity? This book will be of value to anyone who believes that the world's gross natural product is as important as the world's gross national product.
Karen Armstrong Part 1. Charter for Compassion. Search Results: sustainability. Message to the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) To Mr Jacques Diouf Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) The annual celebration of World Food Day, sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is an opportunity to review the numerous activities of this Organization, specifically with regard to its twofold aim: to provide adequate nutrition for our brothers and sisters throughout the world and to consider the obstacles to this work caused by difficult situations and attitudes contrary to solidarity.
This year’s chosen theme - Investing in agriculture for food security - focuses our attention on the agricultural sector and invites us to reflect on the various factors that hinder the fight against hunger, many of them man-made. Not enough attention is given to the needs of agriculture, and this both upsets the natural order of creation and compromises respect for human dignity. Social Development, 30 June 2000. Mr President, The Copenhagen Social Summit stands out among all the recent Summits and World Conferences because it addressed the concerns of the human person in a global manner, rather than stressing specific sectoral aspects of the development process.
The documents of the Summit thus contributed to the emergence of important goals and targets for the community of nations. 1. An integral vision The Copenhagen Summit embraced "a political, economic, ethical and spiritual vision for social development" (n.25). This mirrors what the documents of the Holy See have traditionally called "integral human development", a development approach which addresses the human person in his or her entirety, and addresses at the same time the needs of the entire human family. 2.
Commitment 1 (h) of the Copenhagen Declaration noted the importance of dynamic, open and free markets as a means to help people attain social development. 3. 4. 6. The Copenhagen Summit addressed the question of productive work. Survival and sustainable development. 32nd Session of the Conference of FAO. INTERVENTION BY THE HOLY SEEAT THE 32nd SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE OF FAO(Rome, 29 NOVEMBER-10 DECEMBER 2003)* Mr. Chairman,Mr. Director General,Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen 1. First of all, I wish to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for giving me the floor, and allow me to greet all Heads of Delegation and Members of Delegations present in Rome on the occasion of this Session of the Conference. Our special greetings go to the new member States whose admission shows how the universality of FAO is already a reality.
By doing so, we want to encourage the stakeholders’ commitment – governments, organisations of the civil society and individuals – and to support the efforts made to date for an "appropriate and sustainable" management of the natural resources of the Creation, in view of that auspicious food security, which should be up to the dignity of human beings, in every part of our placet. 2. 3. Mr. 4. Thank you.