It is vital that the bishops who meet next February as the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) are fully briefed, says Wellington Archdiocese Vicar General, Mons. Gerard Burns. Burns describes his involvement in helping prepare the FCBCO conference as very much “in the background”, but that one of the FCBCO’s main themes Read more
COP27’s world leaders have been finding Christian youth and faith organisations are finding their voices through protests. The Christian youths have been at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) with an agenda of their own: to dramatise the hurt the environment is suffering and and, with it, the entire human race. ,Joe Bongay Read more
Small island states are losing their patience with big polluting nations as they suffer the devastating impacts of climate change. Without significant movement at the forthcoming COP27 climate talks in Egypt, a pivotal vote at the next UN general assembly meeting, brought by the tiny Pacific islands of Vanuatu, could open the floodgates to international Read more
As COP27 opens, one in three Catholics in the UK says the Government is doing too little to support poorer countries to tackle climate change. A YouGov poll commissioned by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (Cafod) shows nearly six out of ten Catholics feel the Government has done too little to tackle climate change Read more