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”,…
CYNESA in Homa Bay Diocese
The CYNESA team in Kenya was in the Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay from July 28-31 2018, with a mission to meet young people and share the messages of Laudato Si and care for creation. The team members visiting Homa Bay were David Munene, Hellen Mugo and Celestine Otieno.
CYNESA at the First PaRD General Assembly
CYNESA took part in the first General Assembly of Members of the International Partnership on Religion and Development (PaRD) which was held from 24 -27 June at the Ecumenical Centre “Château de Bossey” in Switzerland.
World Environment Day in Makasa Parish, Tanzania.
In this years’ world environment day, I got an invitation from Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI) under their program called Faith Leaders’ Environmental Advocacy Programme (FLEAT) which I am a participant in, to join them and attend the event in Same district, Tanzania. A faith-based organization called Hope…
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…
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.