River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
This briefing kit accompanies RAOEN youth and faith-based delegates in their journey to COP30 in Belém, Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025. The kit offers practical guides, cultural insights, and advocacy framing rooted in
This statement was developed from the COP 30 Learning Series that RAOEN facilitated in four sessions of the Learning Series on the Climate Series and COP30 from May to October 2025. The Learning Series was
Pedro Walpole SJ Listening to communities as they express their challenges and hopes at the local level reflect great resilience and integrity. Recently, I was asked by the General Secretariat on Synodality to offer some
The brief community visits RAOEN undertook in August and September 2025 were occasions to witness local pathways to synodality as the local Church accompanies indigenous communities in three sites in Bukidnon, Quezon, and Palawan. Through
James Pochury As the world turns its eyes toward Belém in November 2025, it is worth recalling a quieter hilltop moment in June 2025 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India when the Workshop on COP30 and the
With a delegation of indigenous youth participating onsite and virtually, RAOEN brings indigenous voices from South Asia and Southeast Asia to the forthcoming UN climate summit, the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) of the
Brothers and Sisters, As we celebrate the Jubilee of the Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies, we are invited to contemplate and rediscover the mystery of the Church. She is not merely a religious institution, nor is
Caritas Asia, Caritas internationalis, and the Office of Human Development of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) are organizing an online learning session on Stories of Survival: Disasters, Displacement, and Debts, on 31 October
Imelda Soidi In Chapter Two of Pope Leo XIV’s recent exhortation Dilexi Te, he reflects on the way of life of the early Christian community, a people who truly cared for the poor and lived
The two-day international seminar on Indigenous Science Development: Intersecting Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Scientific Inquiry, and Socio-cultural Practices organized by St Edmund’s College Shillong in Meghalaya, in northeast India from 24 to 25 October 2025 gathered