Philippine Catholics Respond to Papal Encyclical With Massive Mobilization for Climate Action<\/strong><\/p>\n
Manila, Philippines:<\/strong> The Philippine Catholic Church has responded to the Pope\u2019s encyclical with a massive mobilization for climate action, launching a petition campaign on Sunday with the goal of collecting at least 1 million signatures addressed to world leaders in the Paris climate summit in late November.<\/p>\n
Cardinal Tagle, Archbishop of Manila and president of Caritas Internationalis, launched the Catholic Climate Petition campaign, during an event with over 1000 priests, religious and lay leaders of the\u00a0Manila Archdiocese. He encouraged Catholic Filipinos\u00a0to take action by signing the petition himself and by stating the importance of the Laudato Si\u2019 encyclical, released by Pope Francis three weeks ago.<\/p>\n
The Catholic Climate Petition is a global campaign led by the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), a coalition of over 140 Catholic organizations from all continents working for climate action. Pope Francis endorsed<\/a> the petition campaign in May, when he met with representatives of the movement in the Vatican.<\/p>\n
This launch event was the first step of a\u00a0massive mobilization of the Philippine Church. On\u00a0July 10\u00a0the Permanent Council Meeting of the Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines will host a presentation of the\u00a0petition campaign, and a series of GCCM events will follow throughout the country. The first\u00a0petition events will take place in July, addressed to diocesan leaders from the regions of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.<\/p>\n
\u201cA first round of 75 parishes have already received the\u00a0campaign materials and will start collecting signatures in Sunday masses\u201d,\u00a0said Lou Arsenio, the Ecology Ministry coordinator of the Manila Archdiocese and GCCM coordinator for the Philippines. \u201cMany more will follow in the next few weeks, as we scale the campaign across the country. This will be huge. When Filipinos commit to mobilize, they really mean it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The climax of the campaign will be the\u00a0Season of Creation, which runs from September 1 (Creation Day) to October 4 (Feast of St Francis), as proposed by the Philippine bishops in a\u00a02003 pastoral statement<\/a>.\u00a0The GCCM has proposed Catholics from all continents to follow the\u00a0example of the Philippine Church and other Christian denominations, by creating a\u00a0Season of Creation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u201cInspired by the Laudato Si\u2019 encyclical, we are calling on all\u00a0Filipino\u00a0Catholics\u00a0to raise their voice for world leaders to listen\u201d, said Father John Leydon, a Columban missionary in Manila who also is a GCCM co-founder.\u00a0\u201cClimate change is a moral issue, and we must reinforce the call to action of the Holy Father in his encyclical. We must show that Catholics stand with Pope Francis and care for creation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The petition\u2019s goal is to raise a strong Catholic voice\u00a0addressed to world leaders in the U.N. COP21 summit in late November, asking them to take bold action to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The signatures will be delivered to world leaders in coalition with other faith-based and secular campaigns, to show\u00a0that citizens of the world are deeply concerned about climate change and won\u2019t tolerate inaction.<\/p>\n
It is good to\u00a0keep in mind how\u00a0symbolic\u00a0it is that the Philippines is mobilizing at such a large scale, given this is one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change.\u00a0The Philippines naturally receives a large amount of severe tropical storms each year, but climate change is worsening the intensity and frequency of these storms, and the increase of the sea level makes them more deadly. The picture is even worse considering that\u00a0a large fraction of the\u00a0100 million Filipinos\u00a0live in poverty and are not prepared to cope with the climate\u2019s disruption.<\/p>\n
The tragic Typhoon Haiyan of 2013, which killed around 15,000 people, was a sad\u00a0premonition of what many experts consider will\u00a0be the new normal in the future of the Philippines.\u00a0Yeb Sa\u00f1o, the former Philippine\u00a0climate ambassador who\u00a0made the news headlines<\/a>\u00a0when Typhoon Haiyan hit at the time of the U.N. COP19 climate summit,\u00a0is promoting the petition<\/a> as well as he peregrinates around the world\u00a0leading The People\u2019s Pilgrimage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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