Laudato Si Workshop at Rongo University
Rongo University College is one of the public universities in Homabay County. It offers diversified courses inclusive of environmental studies. Many young people do not understand the implications of environmental studies to the needs and interests of their local communities. Environmental problems have become increasingly difficult to understand and evaluate…
CYNESA Meets the Bishop of Homabay Diocese in Effort to Promote Laudato Si
“The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change” (Laudato Si’ 13). In living the appeal by Pope Francis I “to bring the whole human family together”,…
Young People Lead the Way at the Laudato Si Conference
“Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis, and the sufferings of the excluded.” These words from paragraph 13 of the encyclical Laudato Si’, came alive in a unique way at the Vatican summit marking the…
Laudato Si and Wildlife Conservation Interview at Radio Tumaini
On June 7, the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA) engaged the Coastal community of Kenya on issues of human-wildlife conflict from a Laudato Si perspective through a radio program hosted by Rebecca Makeo at Radio Tumaini in Voi, Kenya. Radio Tumaini is an initiative of Lwanga…
St. Martin de Porres Youth in Soweto Pedge Laudato Si’ Action
The youth of St. Martin de Porres parish, Soweto and the Jesuit Social Apostolate of South Africa, joined forces to organize a dialogue and discussion on The Care Of Our Common Home. The workshop that took place on the 30th of September at St. Martin de Porres church, in Orlando…
CYNESA's Mission is to offer the platform through which young Catholics across Africa, respond to the twin challenges of Environmental Degradation and Climate Change, from the perspective of Catholic social teaching on care for creation, paying attention to the most vulnerable.