River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
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
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
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 theListening to rivers, forests, and indigenous hearts
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 theRAOEN brings indigenous voices to COP30 for peoples, oceans, and forests
Chainarong Monthienvichienchai (LiCAS.news) More than 50 bishops and Church leaders from across Asia gathered in Samphran, a western suburb of Bangkok, from 22 to 26 September 2025 to reflect on and deepen synodality in theFABC Bishops’ Seminar for Synodality: Reflecting on and deepening synodality in the Church
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 theIntegral ecology calls for journeying with those who suffer
The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), through its Pastoral Letter on the Care of Creation issued on 15 March 2025, calls upon the Church in Asia to reflect on the urgency of responding toFABC Pastoral Letter to the Local Churches in Asia on the Care of Creation: A Call to Ecological Conversion
Asia’s largest church organizations launched a regional alliance to confront pressing social and environmental challenges and collaborate to advance ecological protection, Indigenous rights, and economic justice. The River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network (RAOEN),Church groups in Asia launch regional alliance to tackle social and environmental crises
RAOEN shares an excerpt from the keynote address of Bishop Gerardo Alminaza (Diocese of San Carlos in Negros Occidental, Philippines) for the “Building Climate Resilient Communities in Asia” workshop organized by the Office of HumanTowards a climate-resilient Asia
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, andListening to Indigenous Peoples and talking as Church from where we are