River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
For RAOEN, the ENA meeting is an important gathering to listen to unheard voices of local communities from the Oceania-Asia biome, to share perspectives on how the local and universal Church can better accompany communities,
REPAM, the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Red Eclesial Panamazónica) Mauricio Lopez, Coordinator of the ENA Organizing Committee, stressed that this alliance of networks aims to be a space for listening to the bishops, to the ecclesial
RAOEN shares this 2019 Ecojesuit interview with Bishop Vincent Aind of the Diocese of Bagdogra, India on the challenges experienced by the Adivasi working in the Darjeeling tea (or chai) industry. In the tea gardens,
Adivasi shepherd statue at the Archbishop’s house in Ranchi RAOEN shares this 2019 Ecojesuit interview with Archbishop Felix Toppo SJ, Archdiocese of Ranchi in India where he shared about the challenges of Adivasis, the tribals in Bagdogra,
FCBCO Assembly delegates visit a river in the village of Mau heavily mined for its gravel (Photo grabbed from the FCBCO Assembly Day 2 wrap-up video.) On 6 February, Day 2 of the FCBCO Suva
RAOEN shares the document Listening to Indigenous Peoples and Talking as Church from Where We Are, a reflection on the responses gathered from 23 synod synthesis reports of bishops’ conferences in Oceania and Asia, and
Pedro Walpole SJ Accepting where another person is, different to me, is not the start of relativism. It is in listening to other stories that leads to a dialogue and valuing of diversity. Listening to
Sanjeeb Drong Sanjeeb Drong, General Secretary of the Bangladesh Adivasi Forum, shares to the River Above Asia Oceania Ecclesial Network (RAOEN) the historical injustices and present challenges to Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh. In his reflection,
Sr. Mariana Tevurega Sr Mariana Tevurega, a Marist sister in Fiji shares to the River Above Asia Oceania Ecclesial Network (RAOEN) the threats to ecological integrity faced by communities in the province of Ba due
Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) President Archbishop Peter Loy Chong tells stories, from his childhood in Fiji, to the current experiences of communities in Oceania, to shed light on the different threats