Philippine Catholic church launches nat'l program for environmental care
Published March 4, 2021 9:56am
Launching photo handout from NASSA/Caritas Philippines
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines announced Thursday the launching on Wednesday of the Church's environmental consciousness program inspired by Pope Francis' encyclical on the care of creation "Laudato Si."
In a release sent to media, CBCP Inter-Commission Working Group (ICWG) on Laudato Si said that the program aims to strengthen the collective advocacies and actions to “care of our common home.”
ICWG's release quoted Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as saying, “The Laudato Si encyclical is not just a ‘green rhetoric,’ it is a document that requires us to do ecological conversion, conversion to ecological justice, and action.”