River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
Pedro Walpole SJ We are entering the era of 1.5°C and above. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) recently released Limiting Overshoot Spotlight Report, a study affirming that under current policies, the world is unable to
Pedro Walpole SJ From the COP30 climate conference zones to Cúpula dos Povos (CDP) (People’s Summit) here at Belém in Brazil, people are caught with the contradictions and the frustrations. At the same time, the
RAOEN’s attention to recent local, regional, and global pastoral letters on the pilgrimage of hope, care for creation and ecological conversion, and climate justice and our common home, reflects its continuing commitment to highlight the
James Pochury The 11-day, nearly 33,000 km apostolic journey of Pope Francis to Oceania and Southeast Asia from 2 to 13 September 2024 is not just about a pastoral series of visits but a profound
Monsignor Gerard Burns It became clear in the Oceania continental process (with notable exceptions) that, by our common Christian formation that the Church is the privileged place for the experience of walking together, the first
During the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania 2023 Assembly in Suva Fiji, Pedro Walpole SJ, Network Coordinator of the River Above Asia Oceania Ecclesial Network (RAOEN), shared about the network’s purpose in engaging
RAOEN shares the opening address of Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, during the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences’ of Oceania (FCBCO) Assembly in Suva, Fiji. The gathering aims
The Pacific Ocean, covering one-third of the planet’s surface, is the largest climate determinant on Earth. Oceania and Asia share a common image in the ‘River Above’ – the Pacific Ocean is the current of
Different groups affected by the changes in ocean climate, livelihoods and biodiversity loss started to exchange in March what group action and participation might be possible around the second UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), reflecting and
There is an urgent need to develop a creative dialogical space in an adequate environment in order to respond to the appeals made in Laudato Si’, and to enact the structural transformations it put forward.