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.”