River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
James Pochury As governments, faith-based organisations, civil society groups, and international agencies gather in Bonn, Germany for SB64, the UN’s mid-year climate negotiations, conversations are taking place about climate finance, adaptation, loss and damage, andConversations and negotiations on people’s future in SB64
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 COP as a spiritual experience sounds like a contradiction in action and in being. For many, it will begin to happen on the way home with so much tiredness, along with transitHow does one speak of COP as a spiritual experience?
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
On 11 September 2025, ESSC Research Director and RAOEN Coordinator Pedro Walpole SJ shared about COP30 and the role of the Society of Jesus in Episode 1 of the Faith and Ecology Podcast: A COP30Claim the hope and seek the right action
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
In a spirit of synodality and shared discernment, a group of indigenous youth from Upper Pulangi gathered at Balay Laudato Si’ in Bendum, Bukidnon, Philippines on 12 to 13 July 2025 with the visiting sistersIndigenous youth and ACI Sisters journey together in faith and dialogue
Working with the River Above Asia Oceania Ecclesial Network (RAOEN), Balay Laudato Si’ (BLS) in Bendum, Bukidnon, Philippines celebrates the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’ this Jubilee year 2025. Along with Laudate Deum, Laudato Si’Celebrating a decade of Laudato Si’