River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
Carmela Marie Santos Pulangiyēn youth leaders gathered in Bendum in Bukidnon, Philippines from 6 to 9 January 2026 to greet the New Year in the spirit of reflection and community life. There were 32 participantsPagtimbaya: Welcoming 2026, navigating feelings, and recalling my story, grounding in faith
Carmela Marie Santos “To fall in love with Creation is to experience God’s love” was the parting message to young scholars by Archbishop Jose Cabantan of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. The youngSynodal spaces for 2026: Finding God in creation and gratitude
RAOEN Coordinator Pedro Walpole SJ shared about Nurturing Integral Ecology in Synodality at the ROOTS-Asia conference on inculturation, synodality, and integral ecology, held from 8 to 12 December 2025 at the Don Bosco Home in Bangkok,RAOEN joins Asian conference on inculturation, synodality, and integral ecology
Pedro Walpole SJ (presentation during the Mindanao Climate Justice and Solidarity Conference 2025 in Malaybalay, Bukidnon) Welcome back home for those who were in the COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil and greetings to thoseReturning to local realities post-COP Belém
Luciano Coutinho Paulino SJ and Pedro Walpole SJ Around Belém, Pará, Brazil where COP30 is being held, communities that care for their land are meeting on concerns also tackled in the UN climate summit. ButPeople around the COP area call for care of their land
Pedro Walpole SJ In a side meeting of the Asian Catholic Actors and the Climate Change Desk Asia of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) in Belém, Brazil during COP30, the question faced is:Asian Catholic actors: How to continue beyond COP30
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, theWith many contradictions and little implementation, hope struggles on at COP30 to not become a conference of promises
Eneriza Menaling, a Pulangiyēn youth from Mindanao, Philippines, and part of the RAOEN team in COP30 in Belém, Brazil, is featured as one of Ecojesuit‘s climate champions in its Daily Bulletin for Day 6, andRAOEN youth delegate in Ecojesuit climate champion series
Jean D’Cunha The mammoth challenge, not only at the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP 30) on Climate Change, which opens today and runs for the next ten days in Brazil, but also before andCOP 30 at the Amazon’s edge
RAOEN, together with Boston College Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF), and the Integral Ecology Research Network, are gathering indigenous and local voices with academic and faithRAOEN co-organizes COP30 side event on integral ecology and climate justice, bringing indigenous voices in the struggle for change