In 1989, the Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I proclaimed 1 September to be a day of prayer for Creation. In time, the period between 1 September and the feast day of St Francis on 4 October was deemed the ecumenical Season of Creation. This year…
Impressions of Burundi through the World Cup cycle
As football fanatics were watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup, large-scale violence had already broken out in Burundi and elsewhere in the African Great Lakes region. In…
From his home in Assisi, St. Francis wrote a prayer of thanksgiving called the Canticle of Creation, which begins “Praise be to you, my Lord, for all your…
PINE RIDGE, USA/GENEVA – I was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during a time when families were still living off the land. Many of the people still gathered their food from the land, plants and wildlife but this way of life…
The climate change crisis has created a dilemma for our society. For many years we have been trying to find solutions to combat climate change and its effects…
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) signed a project agreement in June to promote inter-religious tolerance and…
A reflection on climate justice and the olive trees in Gethsemane
The Gethsemane garden in Jerusalem is full of olive trees. They produce fruit annually, life-giving olives that can be pressed into oil that nourishes and nurtures. Some of…
