Ground ourselves in Gratitude
The Secretary General of the United Nations said recently` I am here to sound the alarm. The world must wake up. We are on the edge of an abyss – and moving in the wrong direction. Our world has never been more threatened and more divided’ He points out: Covid has exposed the glaring inequalities […]
Conférence sur les changements climatiques à Glasgow. COP26
La Conférence des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques COP 26, accueillie par le Royaume-Uni en partenariat avec l’Italie, se tiendra du 31 octobre au 12 novembre 2021 au Scottish Event Campus (SEC) à Glasgow, au Royaume-Uni. À la lumière des effets mondiaux de COVID-19, le Bureau de la CCNUCC, avec le Royaume-Uni et ses […]
A New Mission – for a new Future,
« rebirthing » We live on borrowed time. We live hurtling towards the collapse of civilization, environmental breakdown and food shocks. Some are aware, and are hoping against hope that COP 26 will make the difference; some are not aware, wanting `normality’ to return. Climate breakdown is with us already, uncontrollable wild fires, heat domes, deaths from […]
Some Threads from Laudato Si Week
There were many different coloured threads woven together throughout the Week. Here are some to give you are glimpse of the tapestry it formed from the various Zoom meetings online, with participants from all round the globe; translations were miraculously available in several languages. Ditebogo, from the Youth Programme South Africa, described how the great […]
We are being deceived about plastics.
Plastic production is closely linked with the fossil fuel industry, and the production of petrochemicals. Plastic is a derivative of fossil fuel. Together fossil fuels, plastics and chemicals have been called a three headed monster. The production of new plastic is feeding the climate crisis. There is a campaign of misinformation going on. Most of […]
Argentina: voces que reclaman justicia
En Argentina como en el resto del mundo vivimos desde hace poco más de un año las consecuencias de la pandemia de Covid 19. La cuarentena a nivel nacional ha sido muy prolongada y cada una de las 24 Provincias tuvo la posibilidad de organizar las medidas sanitarias y el aislamiento preventivo y obligatorio, de […]
Together on this earth
February is Black History Month, a movement which started small in 1915 in the USA. Gradually links with Africa were re-forged , by the 1940s there was expanding study of black History in schools and in the 1960s the great struggle for civil rights led by Martin Luther King. Today a wider movement has been […]
La vergüenza de Arguinegín
El mundo en que vivimos Arguineguín es el nombre del escándalo. Es donde son recibidos la mayoría de los 18.348 los inmigrantes “ilegales” llegados a Canarias por vía marítima en lo que va de año. En el muelle de Arguineguín llevan semanas más de 2.000 inmigrantes en un “campamento de emergencia” iniciado en mayo que […]
This is the decisive decade
This is the most decisive decade in the history of humanity. As I write this it seems over dramatic even though `normality’ has been fractured by the presence of the virus and behaviours have had to be changed rapidly in the face of multiple deaths much and suffering. Yet it is true, this is the […]
Protéger les enfants les plus vulnérables des effets de la COVID-19 : Programme d’action
Une coordination mondiale est nécessaire de toute urgence pour éviter que cette crise sanitaire ne se transforme en une crise des droits de l’enfant. UNICEF Rares sont les personnes encore vivantes aujourd’hui à avoir connu un événement aussi terrible que la pandémie de maladie à coronavirus (COVID-19). Fauchant des vies, détruisant nos moyens de subsistance, entraînant […]