COP28 and Laudate Deum
COP stands for "conference of the parties", with parties being the 197 countries that have signed up to the UN climate treaty (UNFCCC) to...
SMA OLA PODCAST SERIES to mark the Season of Creation
The Season of Creation began on the first of September with the World Day of Prayer for Creation, and ends on the fourth of...
Protecting Biodiversity – COP15
This is the second article to mark Laudato Si Week 2023, which this year has the theme of "Hope for the Earth, Hope for...
Caring for Our Common Home – Laudato Si’ Week 2023
To mark the eighth anniversary of the publication of the encyclical “Laudato Si' – On Care for Our Common Home” this week (on 24...
Conference Of Parties (COP)What Happened?
Below is the text SMA Justice Briefing No 47
In 2022 the severe impacts of climate change were made clearly visible through widespread floods, heat,...
COP27
The UN Climate Change Conference (the official name for climate Conferences Of Parties) has happened every year since 1995. These two-week long gatherings are...
SEASON OF CREATION 2022 – 1st Sept to 4th Oct
The Season of Creation begins on 1 September, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, and ends on 4 October, the Feast...
SMA and OLA Justice Work – a look back at 2020
Since 2014 collaboration between the SMA and OLA Justice and Communications Offices has grown. This has been facilitated by the establishment of a Joint...
COP26 – What is it all about – What is at stake
Over the next few weeks our TV’s, News programmes and Social Media will be dominated by the 26th Conference of Parties in Glasgow taking...
Biodiversity Awareness Campaign 30th Aug to 10th Sept
To Mark the Season of Creation (1st of Sept. to 4th Oct.) the Society of African Missions (SMA) and the Sisters of Our Lady...
THE BEAUTY OF CREATION IN BLACKROCK RD
In the cold days of late winter and early spring an effort was made in the garden in Blackrock Road to prepare the ground,...
Biodiversity Awareness Campaign: LAUDATOS SI’ WEEK
The Society of African Missions (SMA) and the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) in collaboration with Elders for Earth, SHEP Earth Aware,...
PLANTING SEEDS
As A Follow up to yesterday's focus on Earth Day - today it is on planting seeds. The video below shows seeds being blessed...
RESTORE OUR EARTH – Earth Day 2021
April 22nd is Earth Day and the theme for 2021 is “Restore our Earth”. This day is all about reducing our environmental footprint and...
Suggested Practical Actions during the Season of Creation 2020
Pope Francis has declared this year, 24th May 2020 – 24th My 2021, a special Laudato Si’ Anniversary Year.
The season of creation is a...
The Season of Creation – a time for Prayer and Action
The season starts 1 September, the Day of Prayer for Creation, and ends 4 October, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron...
Church leaders appeal to the UN Paris Conference negotiators [COP21]
Vatican City, 26 October 2015 (VIS) – This morning in the Holy See Press Office a press conference was held to present the Appeal...
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE “Climate change is a global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods....