According to the Vatican News portal, during the 'Laudato Si 'Week', which runs from 16 to 24 May around the world, held in connection with the fifth anniversary of the encyclical of the same name of Pope Francis, a joint declaration of forty-two religious organizations from different countries of the world was published. The document declares a complete refusal of the signatory institutions from investing in any form in fossil energy sources. Among the signatories to the declaration are Christians of different confessions: Catholics, Anglicans, Methodists - as well as representatives of Buddhism. This initiative is in line with the spirit of the Laudato Si 'encyclical, which, in particular, says that in our time the world around us ceases to be just a “frame” of human life and activity and is a common home for all mankind.
Let us remind you that on the next Sunday, May 24, the Common Prayer for the planet and all the people living on it will take place. It will usher in the Laudato si 'Special Year, proclaimed by the Vatican Department of Service for Integral Human Development. During this time, meetings and events in various formats dedicated to issues of holistic ecology will be held around the world. The final goal of all the activities of the Laudato si 'year will be the development of a 'global sustainability' project, which is planned to be implemented in the next seven years. In the process of implementation, families and church communities, dioceses and monastic congregations, educational and medical institutions and corporations, humanitarian organizations and agrarian associations will join the common cause.
In our time, the consciousness that the Earth is our common home, in need of care and, possibly, salvation, is characteristic of a large part of the world's population. In March, addressing the faithful with an appeal to hold “Laudato Si Weeks,” the Pontiff said: “What kind of peace do we want to leave for those who come after us, the growing children? (…) I reiterate my urgent appeal to respond to the ecological crisis, for the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor can no longer wait. Let us take care of the creation, the gift of our good Creator God. '
