Nairobi, 29 September, 2024 / 11:14 pm (ACI Africa).
There is a need for urgent collective action from faith communities to address the climate crisis amid droughts and forced migration in many parts of the globe, the Executive Director of the Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation Franciscans Africa (JPIC-FA) has said.
Speaking during the Friday, September 27 Interfaith Youth Forum on Peace and Integral Ecology at the main campus of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, Sr. Mary Francis Wangari urged religious groups to unite in combating the escalating environmental crisis, which she described as a pressing challenge driven by decades of human activity.
“In the face of these immense challenges, we, as an interfaith community, must come together in solidarity. Our role is to collaborate, to address this crisis with a shared sense of responsibility, and to champion justice,” Sr. Wangari said.
Unity, the Kenyan-born member of the Little Sisters of St. Joseph – Africa (LSSJ-J) further said, “is our strength. Divided, we may fall, but together, through interfaith collaboration, we can create lasting change for the environment and humanity.”
“The consequences of climate change are already being felt deeply,” she noted during the September 27 forum that representatives from various faith groups, including Catholic, Anglican, Muslim, and Hare Krishna, in attendance.
