2025

This year’s Season of Creation theme, ‘Peace with Creation’, calls us to a profound reflection on the spiritual, relational, and ecological dimensions of peace-making. It reminds us that authentic and lasting peace is not complete without harmony in our relationship with all of creation...

Catholic Social Justice Sunday reminds us of the breadth of God’s love and concern for us and for our world.In our culture the place of religion and of the Church is increasingly narrowed to our private and individual lives.Faith and justice are then seen to be exclusively about our individual relationship to God and others...

And worst of all, among human beings, those most affected will be, as always, the most vulnerable and poorest in our societies...

In Germany, a ‘wonderful’ illustration of Isaiah 32:14 – “the castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted; citadel and tower will become wasteland forever” – is in areas where coal is mined, such as in North Rhine-Westphalia...

The Church will not remain silent. We will continue to raise our voice alongside science, civil society, and the most vulnerable, with truth, courage and consistency, until justice is done...

We are all saddened by his sudden departure. Let us accompany him with our prayers and grateful memories, united with Jesus Christ, our elder brother who died and rose again. He showed us the way to the house of our God, Father and Mother, where we will all be united in true Love forever.

We publish the latest statement from A Jerusalem Voice for Justice: an ecumenical witness for equality and a just peace in Palestine/Israel, a collective of Christians who are experiencing firsthand the war in Palestine and Israel...

On August 20, 2025, Israeli forces stormed Gaza City, where nearly one million displaced civilians had sought refuge, many already starving. Two days later, on August 22nd, the United Nations declared a famine. By then, the damage was done: 273 people had already died of starvation, including 112 children. The declaration was not a warning, but a grim confirmation of what humanitarian organisations have been saying for months: Gazans have long endured a deliberate descent into starvation...

In response to Brazil’s worst mining disaster in 2015, the FEI Research Group on the Social License to Operate was formed to investigate the social and environmental impacts of mining on vulnerable communities. Their groundbreaking research in the Amazon, particularly in Parauapebas, revealed how economic dependence masks low community trust and perceived injustice, highlighting the urgent need for inclusive decision-making and genuine corporate responsibility in extractive industries.

Misleading information about the causes and consequences of climate change obstructs effective policy responses. This Summary for Policymakers summarizes findings from the larger Synthesis Report “Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review” (SR2025.1)...