River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
From May to September 2025, the River Above Asia Oceania Ecclesial Network (RAOEN) is organizing a four-part learning session for Indigenous youth across Oceania and Asia to share, learn, and listen to each other onRAOEN offers learning sessions for Indigenous youth on the climate crisis and COP30
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
The River Above Asia Oceania Ecclesial Network (RAOEN) encourages Church leaders across Asia and Oceania to take decisive action in protecting Indigenous communities and addressing the escalating climate crisis. The organization emphasized the Church’s responsibilityRAOEN encourages Asia and Oceania Church leaders to champion Indigenous rights, climate action
Raydan Tangwayan Wherever I go, I am always proud to begin with my positionality as a member of the Indigenous tribes – a Sarangani Manobo and a B’laan. My tribal identity informs my stances inVoices of the Indigenous Peoples in RAOEN
James Pochury The 11-day, nearly 33,000 km apostolic journey of Pope Francis to Oceania and Southeast Asia from 2 to 13 September 2024 is not just about a pastoral series of visits but a profoundTo be a Church of the peripheries
RAOEN Coordinator Pedro Walpole SJ spoke on the second day of the 2024 Season of Creation Convocation held by Caritas Australia’s Catholic Earthcare program from 12 to 14 September 2024, on weaving strategic ways forwardWeaving strategic ways forward and making a difference
The Indigenous community in Bendum in northern Mindanao, Philippines revisited synodality during a two-day workshop that the RAOEN team facilitated to explore ways by which to sustain and strengthen a contextualized basic ecclesial community (BEC)RAOEN runs workshop on Indigenous synodality
RAOEN is implementing a biome-based synodality project to engage more broadly with ecclesial communities in Oceania, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and new staff are contributing to this work. James Pochury is the RAOEN RegionalNew ways, new energies for RAOEN’s mission
RAOEN was introduced at the Caritas Asia Regional Conference & Partners’ Forum in Bangkok, Thailand on 11 to 13 June 2024, where the ecclesial network was presented through a brief online sharing from RAOEN CoordinatorRAOEN at the Caritas Asia Conference
