River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
RAOEN Coordinator Pedro Walpole SJ shared about the urgent need to recognize and affirm Indigenous Peoples, to give voice to their lived realities, and to defend their ancestral lands during the workshop, From Commitment to
James Pochury Simran and Jiren are Adivasi youth who carry their ancestors in their bones, know their people’s history in their cells, and can trace their relationship to land and community with perfect clarity but
Eneriza Menaling The word that stood out to me the most today is mutirão, which means community effort or gathering. This word is very meaningful because it shows the importance of people coming together to
Eneriza Menaling Voice is important to be heard, and to be heard we need the presence, and most of all action so that we can implement what we are saying. What’s the point of voicing
Eneriza Menaling My word for today is vulnerability. In one of the online sessions I attended, I heard people talk about their vulnerability in terms of food security because of climate change, which is exactly
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
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
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
The UN released the sixth edition of the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 24 April 2025 and focuses on the Climate Crisis and the vital role of Indigenous Peoples in addressing the impacts
Eneriza Menaling I was happy to be part of a group that visited the Umayamnon community in Sitio Catablaran in February. Catablaran is the farthest sitio of Barangay Canangaan in Cabanglasan, Bukidnon and when we