Nairobi, 06 June, 2023 / 9:22 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA) are committing to take initiatives that contribute to the protection of “God’s handiwork” amid environmental concerns.
In a statement published Monday, June 5, CYNESA members say they are “deeply concerned by the threats posed to current and future generations and our common home by the existential triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and pollution.”
In the statement that they issued during the CYNESA Assembly marking the eighth anniversary of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter on the Care of Our Common Home, Laudato Si’, the Network of Catholic youth commit to “live up to the fullest of our talents, gifts and potentials to be protectors of God’s handiwork.”
“We the young people of faith from diverse communities, diverse cultures of Africa and beyond…commit to get involved in and take part in constant, constructive, and progressive dialogue with other young people living on this planet to create awareness and sensitize them to act in their communities for the care of our common home,” they further say.
The youth also pledge to “engage in individual and collective action to halt biodiversity loss and contribute to its restoration in line with post-2020 global biodiversity framework.”
