River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network
Pedro Walpole SJ (presentation during the Mindanao Climate Justice and Solidarity Conference 2025 in Malaybalay, Bukidnon) Welcome back home for those who were in the COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil and greetings to thoseReturning to local realities post-COP Belém
This briefing kit accompanies RAOEN youth and faith-based delegates in their journey to COP30 in Belém, Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025. The kit offers practical guides, cultural insights, and advocacy framing rooted inFirmly rooted yet pilgrims: Our journey to COP30 (RAOEN briefing kit for COP30 participation)
This statement was developed from the COP 30 Learning Series that RAOEN facilitated in four sessions of the Learning Series on the Climate Series and COP30 from May to October 2025. The Learning Series wasIndigenous youth from Asia Oceania share their voices and stand with the Church’s message for COP30
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
Indigenous youth leaders from the Mymensingh and Dinajpur dioceses in Bangladesh took part in a two-day animation program to promote participatory engagement in basic ecclesial communities (BECs) while affirming their cultural identity and ecological responsibility.RAOEN organizes animation program for indigenous youth from Mymensingh and Dinajpur dioceses in Bangladesh
As they held soil in their hands, young Indigenous women and community leaders also held space for reflection during the second week of the Beginners’ Program on Inculturation, Synodality, Integral Ecology, and Indigenous Pastoral Ministry,We are learners so we can be leaders: Reflections from Week 2 of the Beginners’ Program on Inculturation, Synodality, Integral Ecology, and Indigenous Pastoral Ministry
Indigenous youth leaders from Mindanao representing the Blaan, Matigsalog, Pulangiyēn, Higaonon, and Umajamnon communities recently came together for a transformative three-week workshop at Balay Laudato Si’ in Bendum, Bukidnon. More than a workshop, the Beginners’Rooted in culture, open in faith: Indigenous youth gather in Bendum for reflection and action
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
RAOEN shares an intervention made by Archbishop Peter Loy Chong at a COP28 high-level Party event hosted by Tuvalu entitled Nation-states join forces to pursue a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty negotiating mandate on 2 DecemberTowards a fossil fuel-free future: Protecting the dignity, identity, and existence of Pacific Islanders