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This year’s theme for the Season of Creation, “Listen to the Voice of Creation”, invites participants to consider ways to contemplate the voices of those who are silenced – among them the voices of indigenous peoples and women. Photo: Sean Hawkey/WCC

Season of Creation 2022: “Listen to the Voice of Creation”

Ecumenical prayer and advocacy for creation and climate justice

Children play in a rice field in Laos. Photo: LWF/Thomas Lohnes

Global faith leaders endorse Season of Creation

“Live-giving relationship with God’s creation”

(LWI) - Global faith leaders from different Christian traditions and communions, including the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge, are inviting Christians…

Season the Creation starts on 1 September with an Ecumeical prayer in Assisi, Italy. Photo: Peter K Burian (CC-BY-SA)

Christians globally unite in call for eco-justice

General Secretary Junge: “we need a faithful return to our deepest human identity”

(LWI) On occasion of the first Ecumenical Prayer for Creation on 1 September 2018 in Assisi, The…

Celebrating creation’s ‘Web of Life’

2019 Season of Creation guide now available

(LWI) - The 2019 guide for the annual Season of Creation campaign…

EECMY staff take part in the country-wide initiative to plant trees as part of the churchâs commitment to care for creation and mitigate against climate change. Photo: EECMY/Abeya Wakwoya

Plant a tree, care for creation

Ethiopian Lutherans launch campaign to plant 9 million trees

(LWI) - The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) recently mobilized its members in a…

Planting trees has become part of church life in ELCT: (from the right) Bishop Fredrik Shoo, Rev. Faustine Kahwa, Rev. Solomon Massawe and students attending confirmation classes preparing for a tree planting in Tanzania's Northern Diocese. Photo: ELCT

A passion for creation

Fredrick Shoo: the bishop who plants trees

(LWI) – The glaciers are melting, and the snow is retreating at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. As he was observing this from his doorstep at the foot of the mountain, which is a landmark…

One of the photos in the exhibition, showing sunrise in Bauko, Mountain Province, Philippines. Photo: Johanan Celine Valeriano

“The wisdom of God woven into the fabric of creation”

Ecumenical partners launch photo exhibition on the Bible and biodiversity in New York and Geneva

(LWI) - On the eve of the Climate Action Summit in New York, four ecumenical organizations are launching a photo exhibition on the Bible and…

Students from schools in the West Bank take part in the August 2019 training workshop on environmental leadership. Photo: Adrainne Gray

Preparing young Palestinians to care for creation

West Bank students learn how to preserve the region’s rich biodiversity

(LWI) - With the 51,000 living species in her home region constituting around three percent of the global biodiversity, Lutheran educator Joan Ayyad wants young…