🌍 Join us in prayer for our common home! ELSiA invites you to a special ecumenical Mass, celebrating the Season of Creation. 📅 17 September, 1 pm 📍 Chapel for Europe, Brussels ✝️ Led by Rev. Arani Sen, Senior Chaplain at Holy Trinity Brussels 🔗 elsialliance.org/2026/09/01/s...

🌊 Season of Creation has begun! Join ELSiA & Christians worldwide in prayer & action for our common home with the theme "Living Water". 📍Join us for two celebratory events in Brussels: 📅 9 Sept – Mass at EU Parliament 📅17 Sept – Ecumenical service, Chapel for Europe 🔗 buff.ly/qSKUeoX

🌿 Season of Creation Celebratory Mass at the @europarl.europa.eu 🌿 📆 Wednesday, 9 September, 8:30-9:00 📍Prayer and Meditation Room (ASP 00H152) ✝️ Main celebrant: Fr Manuel Barrios (COMECE). Open to all with EP access. Join us in prayer for peace & justice 🙏

🌊Water heals, restores, makes creation flourish. But it also challenges us to recognize ecological damage, to embrace interconnectedness, & calls us to care for our Common Home. 🌍May this #SeasonofCreation2026 be a path for the healing of the Earth. 🔗 seasonofcreation.org

✨SAVE THE DATE ✨ 📢 On 10 September, the Laudato Si' Action Platform will bring together perspectives from the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership & the Iswe Foundation for a global Season of Creation webinar 🌱 Join the conversation ➡️ buff.ly/MYItWRP

🌱 Inspiring news for integral ecology ⤵️ www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

The Pope’s garden in the Vatican Gardens becomes 100% organic - Vatican News

The Pope's garden next to the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in the Vatican Gardens, commissioned in the Middle Ages by Pope Nicholas III Orsini, becomes ...

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Hope, collaboration & shared commitment were at the heart of yesterday's ELSiA General Assembly. 🌿 Together, we reflected on our common mission, upcoming initiatives, & how to strengthen our impact. And... a warm welcome to our newest members: Pax Christi International & New Humanity NGO 👏

🧵 1/3 ELSiA & @europeanjesuit.bsky.social convened a dialogue at the @europarl.europa.eu on one of today's defining challenges: how do we ensure food security while protecting our climate, restoring biodiversity, and sustaining rural communities across Europe? 🌍

🌍 Digital culture needs more than content. It needs hope. Applications are now open for Digital Missionaries, a global intensive for Catholic creators, storytellers, and changemakers. 👉 50 participants. Worldwide. No cost. From Laudato Si' Action Platform! Apply by June 26: bit.ly/LSAPbootcamp

🗨️ How do you balance food security, climate protection & biodiversity in global land use? A 2025 study by the German Bishops' Conference has a systemic answer. 🌿 Findings presented live at the European Parliament on Monday 22 June at 16:00. Register until 12 June 👉 elsialliance.org/food-securit...

🎙️ #SocialJusticeOnAir is back! A home means safety, dignity & a chance to start again. In our new episode, we explore Europe’s housing crisis & how Housing First is helping people rebuild, starting with a home. Listen now! ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/39KN... ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

🌿European agriculture can't deliver food security, climate action & biodiversity restoration without a systemic rethink. On Monday 22 June at the @europarl.europa.eu, @europeanjesuit.bsky.social & ELSiA are bringing ethics, policy & farming realities into dialogue. Register here 👉 buff.ly/MdI2SKS

🌎️ At a time of profound global uncertainty & conflicts that underscore the growing risks of fossil fuel dependency, a coalition of over 130 faith organisations issued an urgent appeal to EU institutions: “Europe, Be Faithful for our Common Home.” 🔗 laudatosimovement.org/eubefaithful/

🌍 The #EU #OvershootDay 2026 (3 May) is a reminder that overconsumption harms both creation and the most vulnerable. Inspired by #LaudatoSi’, ELSiA calls for ecological conversion rooted in responsibility, justice, and hope. 🔗 Read more elsialliance.org/when-consump...

🌎It’s time to rethink growth. ELSiA welcomes the new UN Roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth — a bold framework to align our economies with people & planet. 🔗 elsialliance.org/time-to-reth... 🧵1/7

🌿 Last week, ELSiA gathered voices from across Europe at Taizé (France) to explore one question: what does integral ecology mean to you? Three days of stories, silence & awakening — the kind of depth only Taizé can hold. 🌱 📣 elsialliance.org/a-living-tap... 🎥 youtube.com/shorts/WodwF...

On Day 1 of the #ELSiARetreat, we gathered in #Taizé to share, pray, and reflect on our work for #LaudatoSi & #IntegralEcology. Hearing best practices from the ground was the perfect way to kick off our retreat and find hope in the current state of the world. 🌿

🌿 ELSiA is gathering in Taizé, France — 6 to 8 March 2026. A retreat rooted in prayer, encounter, and integral ecology — bringing together national coordinators, eco-church initiatives & ecology organisations from across Europe to reflect and renew. 🕊️

ELSiA was pleased to participate in the annual meeting of Catholic organisations working with the EU at COMECE in Brussels. An inspiring mutual exchange, especially the dialogue with Mgr. Bernardito Auza, strengthening our shared mission and collaboration for the year ahead.

Big news to kick off 2026!🎉 We're launching our annual newsletter — your insider pass to ELSiA's biggest wins, past events, and everything we accomplished together. 🌱 Want the highlights delivered straight to your inbox? 👉Sign up now 🔗 elsialliance.org/newsletter/

🌍 Congratulations Laudato Si' Action Platform for the incredible impact in 2024-2025 in driving ecological conversion & making sustainable practices part of everyday life. Let's keep working together to turn commitment into action!💚 🔗 laudatosiactionplatform.org/laudato-si-a...

Laudato Si' Action Platform Annual Report 2024-2025: A Church Walking Together in Hope - Laudato Si' Action Platform

Explore this year’s milestones in ecological conversion, global engagement, and institutional action, with reflections from Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., and Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A.

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Thank you to MEPs @chahim.bsky.social and Peter Liese for joining our (co-organised with @misereor.bsky.social) breakfast this morning at COMECE for a cross-party exchange on the future of #EU climate policy, between international expectations and European political realities after #COP30.

🗓️ On this #WorldDayOfThePoor, we call to #TurnDebtIntoHope. 👉 Too many countries spend more on debt than on health or education. 📢 We urge the EU and global community to support fair, transparent debt solutions that put people and the planet first. www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

'Turn Debt into Hope' for World Day of the Poor - Vatican News

On the ninth World Day of the Poor, the European Laudato Si’ Alliance calls on the EU to address the global debt crisis affecting the most vulnerable. ...

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#COP30, Week 1: Strong voices, real solutions. 🍃 Partners highlighted the growing impacts of the climate crisis. 🙏 Faith leaders called for bold, fair action. 🌎 Communities demanded a say in decisions about their land. Solutions exist, what’s missing is political will! www.cidse.org/2025/10/30/c...

🔴 For those who missed it: #Europe’s bishops complemented Global South voices in calling for bold climate action. Ahead of #COP30, they urged the EU to act with courage, solidarity and moral responsibility to advance climate justice and integral ecology: ccee.eu/comunicato-f...

🔴 A powerful moment yesterday at #COP30. Bishops from Latin America, Africa & Asia delivered their historic call for climate justice to the UNFCCC secretariat, urging a fossil fuel phase-out and rejecting false green solutions. 📰 Read the full appeal: ncronline.org/news/bishops...

Our member Laudato Si Movement journeys from #RaisingHope to #COP30 in #Belém. 🌿 Together, we walk a path of faith, justice & action for our common home, calling for a true COP of Hope rooted in #LaudatoSi. 📰Discover their activities and plans on: laudatosimovement.org/cop30/

Among our members currently participating in #COP30, there is @cidse.bsky.social, and you can access their events and initiatives inside the Blue Zone here: www.cidse.org/2025/10/30/c... ... and around the city of Belém here: www.cidse.org/2025/11/05/c... #ELSiACOP30

CIDSE@COP30 in Belém

!!! This article focuses on CIDSE’s activities at the official conference and will be regularly updated. CONTEXT After years of COPs in countries and contexts that did not allow for the full par...

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As part of their global "Jesuits for Global Justice" campaign (jesc.eu/jesuits-for-...), our @europeanjesuit.bsky.social colleagues will be hosting two get-together events in Belém. If you are attending #COP30, have a look and... see you there! More info: jesc.eu/cop30-get-to... #ELSiACOP30

In a few hours, several ELSiA representatives will head to #COP30! Our journey, grounded in EcoAdvocacy, EcoSpirituality and EcoPraxis, continues as we join forces in both the Blue Zone and the People's Summit to amplify and to act in response to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the Poor.