15M: Climate Strike, Franciscan reflection on the new global movement

15M: Climate Strike, Franciscan reflection on the new global movement

Here is a girl from Sweden. Her name is Greta Thunberg. She is 16 years old. She started her solo protest of “School Strike for the Climate” in front of the Swedish parliament on August 20, 2018. The slogan of her Friday protest was “Why Study for a Future We Might Not Have?”

Care of the environment, ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.

Care of the environment, ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.

We believe that the care for the environment must be transversal and must involve all people, along with politics, religion and economy. As we celebrate the 800th anniversary of the encounter of St. Francis with Sultan Malik al-Kamil (1219), the JPIC Course 2019 takes into account the ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, because we are convinced that the solution has to come from everyone.