Le religioni e i bambini migranti forzati. Global Partners Forum

"L’incontro, che vedrà coinvolte per quattro giorni – 16-19 ottobre – circa 70 organizzazioni internazionali di varie fedi e confessioni nella realizzazione di un Piano di Azione condiviso, si svolgerà presso la Curia Generalizia della Compagnia del Gesù in Borgo Santo Spirito, Roma." http://www.farodiroma.it/le-religioni-e-i-bambini-migranti-forzati-dai-gesuiti-il-global-partners-forum/

Le religioni e i bambini migranti forzati. Global Partners Forum

"L’incontro, che vedrà coinvolte per quattro giorni – 16-19 ottobre – circa 70 organizzazioni internazionali di varie fedi e confessioni nella realizzazione di un Piano di Azione condiviso, si svolgerà presso la Curia Generalizia della Compagnia del Gesù in Borgo Santo Spirito, Roma." http://www.farodiroma.it/le-religioni-e-i-bambini-migranti-forzati-dai-gesuiti-il-global-partners-forum/

Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela

From September 30th to October 6th we pray for Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.

https://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/prayer-cycle/colombia-ecuador-venezuela

Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Perù

In communion with Christians of different denominations,this week we are called to pray for Bolivia , Brazil, Chile and Perù.
You can find the prayers and more information at the link
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/prayer-cycle/bolivia-brazil-chile-peru

Prayer for unity

Prayer for unity

We invoke you, Spirit of Unity,
Transform our divisions and reshape our vision.
All of creation, all living beings, cry in the midst of injustice and brokenness.
Spirit of Unity, reconcile your people.
We invoke you, Spirit of Unity,
Heal the wounds of our history,
Remove from us all that sustains our present divisions.
Unstop our ears to hear your call for unity.

https://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/prayer-cycle/ghana-nigeria

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION 2018 - Pope Francis message

Today is the "WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION".  Today starts the season of creation. Christians of different denominations are called to celebrate the Creation each year from the 1st of September ( world day of prayer for the care of creation) to the 4th of October (the St Francis of Assisi feast day).
1st Septemberis the day when Bulgarian Orthodox Church starts his liturgical year and this Church created this world day of prayer for the care of creation. Another big impact in the celebration of the world day of prayer for the care of creation comes from the Constantinople Orthodox Church. 
All the Churches of the World Council of Churches and Catholich Church started to celebrate together the season of creation.
Pope Francis has given a big impact in the care of creation and defence of our common home that is the Earth and in the fight of the Climat Changes. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Induists, Buddhists,and people of other religions, and peopleof good will ,are all involved in care of the earth and in the fight of climate changes.
Pope Francis has written Laudato SI' 
Here you can read Laudato SI http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/it/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

Here you can find the message by Pope Francis of today WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2018/documents/papa-francesco_20180901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE FRANCIS
FOR THE 
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION

1 SEPTEMBER 2018

 

Dear brothers and sisters,

On this Day of Prayer, I wish first to thank the Lord for the gift of our common home and for all those men and women of good will committed to protecting it. I am likewise grateful for the many projects aimed at promoting the study and the safeguarding of ecosystems, for the efforts being made to develop more sustainable agriculture and more responsible nutrition, and for the various educational, spiritual and liturgical initiatives that involve Christians throughout the world in the care of creation.

It must be acknowledged that we have not succeeded in responsibly protecting creation. The environmental situation, both on the global level and in many specific places, cannot be considered satisfactory. Rightly, there is a growing sense of the need for a renewed and sound relationship between humanity and creation, and the conviction that only an authentic and integral vision of humanity will permit us to take better care of our planet for the benefit of present and future generations. For “there is no ecology without an adequate anthropology” (Laudato Si’, 118).

On this World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, which the Catholic Church for several years now has celebrated in union with our Orthodox brothers and sisters and with participation of other Churches and Christian communities, I would like to draw attention to the question of water. It is a very simple and precious element, yet access to it is, sadly, for many people difficult if not impossible. Nonetheless, “access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world owes a great social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity” (ibid., 30).

Water invites us to reflect on our origins. The human body is mostly composed of water, and many civilizations throughout history arose near great rivers that marked their identity. In an evocative image, the beginning of the book of Genesis states that, in the beginning, the spirit of the Creator “swept over the face of the waters (1:2)”.

In considering the fundamental role of water in creation and in human development, I feel the need to give thanks to God for “Sister Water”, simple and useful for life like nothing else on our planet. Precisely for this reason, care for water sources and water basins is an urgent imperative. Today, more than ever, we need to look beyond immediate concerns (cf. Laudato Si’, 36) and beyond a purely utilitarian view of reality, “in which efficiency and productivity are entirely geared to our individual benefit” (ibid., 159). We urgently need shared projects and concrete gestures that recognize that every privatization of the natural good of water, at the expense of the human right to have access to this good, is unacceptable.

For us Christians, water represents an essential element of purification and of life. We think immediately of baptism, the sacrament of our rebirth. Water made holy by the Spirit is the matter by which God has given us life and renewed us; it is the blessed source of undying life. For Christians of different confessions, baptism also represents the real and irreplaceable point of departure for experiencing an ever more authentic fraternity on the way to full unity. Jesus, in the course of his mission, promised a water capable of quenching human thirst for ever (cf. Jn 4:14). He prophesied, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink (Jn 7:37). To drink from Jesus means to encounter him personally as the Lord, drawing from his words the meaning of life. May the words he spoke from the cross – “I thirst” (Jn 19:28) – echo constantly in our hearts. The Lord continues to ask that his thirst be quenched; he thirsts for love. He asks us to give him to drink in all those who thirst in our own day, and to say to them, “I was thirsty and you gave me to drink” (Mt 25:35). To give to drink, in the global village, does not only entail personal gestures of charity, but also concrete choices and a constant commitment to ensure to all the primary good of water.

I would like also to mention the issue of the seas and oceans. It is our duty to thank the Creator for the impressive and marvellous gift of the great waters and all that they contain (cf. Gen 1:20-21; Ps 146:6), and to praise him for covering the earth with the oceans (cf. Ps 104:6). To ponder the immense open seas and their incessant movement can also represent an opportunity to turn our thoughts to God, who constantly accompanies his creation, guiding its course and sustaining its existence (cf. St. John Paul II, Catechesis of 7 May 1986).

Constant care for this inestimable treasure represents today an ineluctable duty and a genuine challenge. There is need for an effective cooperation between men and women of good will in assisting the ongoing work of the Creator. Sadly, all too many efforts fail due to the lack of effective regulation and means of control, particularly with regard to the protection of marine areas beyond national confines (cf. Laudato Si’, 174). We cannot allow our seas and oceans to be littered by endless fields of floating plastic. Here too, our active commitment is needed to confront this emergency. We need to pray as if everything depended on God’s providence, and work as if everything depended on us.

Let us pray that waters may not be a sign of separation between peoples, but of encounter for the human community. Let us pray that those who risk their lives at sea in search of a better future may be kept safe. Let us ask the Lord and all those engaged in the noble service of politics that the more sensitive questions of our day, such as those linked to movements of migration, climate change and the right of everyone to enjoy primary goods, may be faced with generous and farsighted responsibility and in a spirit of cooperation, especially among those countries most able to help.

Let us pray too, for all those who devote themselves to the apostolate of the sea, for those who help reflect on the issues involving maritime ecosystems, for those who contribute to the development and application of international regulations on the seas in order to safeguard individuals, countries, goods, natural resources – I think, for example, of marine fauna and flora, and coral reefs (cf. ibid., 41) or sea beds – and to guarantee an integral development in view of the common good of the entire human family and not particular interests. Let us remember, too, all those who work to protect maritime areas and to safeguard the oceans and their biodiversity, that they may carry out this task with responsibility and integrity.

Finally, let us be concerned for the younger generation and pray for them, that they may grow in knowledge and respect for our common home and in the desire to care for the essential good of water, for the benefit of all. It is my prayerful hope that Christian communities may contribute more and more concretely helping everyone to enjoy this indispensable resource, in respectful care for the gifts received from the Creator, and in particular rivers, seas and oceans.

From the Vatican, 1 September 2018

FRANCIS

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Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger

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Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger

12 - 18 August 2018

INTERCESSIONS

We are thankful for:

the  heritage of ancient trade routes, rich oral traditions and nomadic practices of people in the lands these countries now occupyhumanitarian work to improve food security and livelihoods, especially for womenpro-active efforts to preserve the environment in these desert landswelcome and provision for those who often must flee across borders.

We pray for:

those impoverished who lack basic needs and rights, that these will be metdesperate children and others who turn to crime or begging or become enslavedeffective response to the frequent droughts and hunger in this areamore stable political rule in these countries to stem violence and provide for all.PRAYERS

God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Eternal God, we pray in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, for Mali, Chad, Niger, Mauritania and Burkina Faso. 

We know that in our part of the world some people are getting carried away by hatred – people who are unable to think clearly, and turn furiously on the people whom you have placed in this part of the world to enjoy your creation and witness to you. We pray for girls and boys, women and men, children and adults, and the elderly, for you to grant them peace, your peace. In the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, change the hearts of all those who are carried away by hatred, that they may find in you the Hope of Salvation, and that they may become messengers of peace for ever.     

We thank you, Lord, for you are faithful to your promise. 
Glory and praise be given to you for ever and ever. Amen

(Pastor Kinda Tegwende Leonard/Sore Mahamoudou, Burkina Faso.)

 

Prayer for Mauritania

Your land, O Lord, is divided
and suffers from fighting between your children.

Injustices of all kinds, hatred and bitterness
are part of the daily life of the people.

Families seek reconciliation.
Tribes and ethnic groups need reconciliation and peace.

The country needs to be restored and reconciled with itself
in order to deal with its past.

The downtrodden still struggle to live a decent life.
The powerful continue to exploit the powerless and the voiceless.

Send your Holy Spirit to reveal your presence and might to all.

May your name be feared and judgment brought upon those
who continue to oppress the little ones.

Enter into hearts and lives and change them to become havens of love.

(© Dr Colette Bouka Coula, Cameroon, former staff member of the Lutheran World Federation in Mauritania)

 

Prayer for Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania

God, our Father, we bless you
for the gift of life that you grant us,
that strength of faith, 
so fragile and so powerful,
which is nourished by the assurance of your love.
We pray to you, Lord,
for the sustenance of life for the people of these five countries,
Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.
Stir up the strength and courage of all those who are engaged
in lifting these countries out of poverty.

(Prières pour le monde 2004 © Fédération protestante de France, Paris, France. English transl. Terry MacArthur, © 2005 WCC)

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