We, voices from faith communities across the world, join in prayer for meaningful decisions at the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow.
We pray for courage and compassion to transform those human activities destroying nature and altering the climate system on which our lives depend.
We pray our hearts to reject fear and embrace love, hope and transformation for a more healthy, safe, clean and sustainable world. We pray for strength that our lives be patterns and examples.
We pray for protection of climate activists and environmental defenders, who often risk their health, if not their lives, to break silence.
We pray for protection of the poor and most vulnerable communities, those least responsible yet most affected by our insufficient climate action.
We pray that our leaders listen to grasp the urgency expressed, in the latest science, and to guide our economic systems to reject dependence on extraction, exploitation and accumulation through dispossession.
We pray for wisdom, courage and compassion in our climate negotiators, to find shared solutions together that honour needs of the poorest, while reflecting meaningful action from the richest and highest emitters.
We pray the developed countries will lead in greenhouse gas emissions and climate finance, as they promised in the Paris Agreement.
We pray leaders in all countries will do all they can to rapidly reduce extraction and burning of
fossil fuels, and promote sustainable economic, social and political systems to stabilize global temperature rise at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
We pray for an inclusive conference, in which the voices of the least powerful are heard alongside the most powerful.
We pray, in this pandemic time, that access to vaccines is a human right for all, and that delegates attending the COP remain healthy and covid-free.
Adapted from PRAYER BY LINDSEY FIELDER COOK, QUAKER
Australian Religious Response to Climate Change
COP 26: A Path Forward in the Global Climate Crisis
/in Earth & Faith, Featured Articles, NEWS, UN Climate Meetings /by adminInterfaith Power & Light is showing up in a big way at the Glasgow Climate Talks! The organization has faith leaders “on the ground” and working remotely. IPL executive director, Rev. Susan Susan Hendershot, will be writing regular blog posts from the COP 26 gathering. Here is an excerpt of her initial post.
“As I reflect on the idea of hope, I think about the very clear way that I felt it earlier today. I attended an Interfaith Prayer Vigil with IPL Board member Vy Nguyen and United Methodist representative John Hill in Glasgow’s George Square, where speakers from multiple spiritual traditions, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Pagan, and many others, led us in prayer and reflection from their tradition on care for Earth, our common home. Our traditions are different, and some would use this as a way to divide us. But it is in our solidarity, our common humanity, that we can make a path forward in this crisis. That is cause for hope.”
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Global Prayer for COP 26
/in Earth & Faith, Featured Articles, NEWS, UN Climate Meetings /by adminWe, voices from faith communities across the world, join in prayer for meaningful decisions at the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow.
We pray for courage and compassion to transform those human activities destroying nature and altering the climate system on which our lives depend.
We pray our hearts to reject fear and embrace love, hope and transformation for a more healthy, safe, clean and sustainable world. We pray for strength that our lives be patterns and examples.
We pray for protection of climate activists and environmental defenders, who often risk their health, if not their lives, to break silence.
We pray for protection of the poor and most vulnerable communities, those least responsible yet most affected by our insufficient climate action.
We pray that our leaders listen to grasp the urgency expressed, in the latest science, and to guide our economic systems to reject dependence on extraction, exploitation and accumulation through dispossession.
We pray for wisdom, courage and compassion in our climate negotiators, to find shared solutions together that honour needs of the poorest, while reflecting meaningful action from the richest and highest emitters.
We pray the developed countries will lead in greenhouse gas emissions and climate finance, as they promised in the Paris Agreement.
We pray leaders in all countries will do all they can to rapidly reduce extraction and burning of
fossil fuels, and promote sustainable economic, social and political systems to stabilize global temperature rise at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
We pray for an inclusive conference, in which the voices of the least powerful are heard alongside the most powerful.
We pray, in this pandemic time, that access to vaccines is a human right for all, and that delegates attending the COP remain healthy and covid-free.
Adapted from PRAYER BY LINDSEY FIELDER COOK, QUAKER
Australian Religious Response to Climate Change
Host a Screening of Mission: Joy
/in Earth & Faith, Featured Articles, Media, NEWS /by adminA Thank You gift from IPL to you!
PL is grateful to our congregations and supporters and is offering this fabulous film as a token of our appreciation this Thanksgiving.
Screening dates will be November 19 – December 2. You will be able to view it online at home through IPL registration.
“Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, Mission: Joy is a documentary with unprecedented access to the unlikely friendship of two international icons who transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu. In their final joint mission, these self-described mischievous brothers give a master class in how to create joy in a world that was never easy for them. They offer neuroscience-backed wisdom to help each of us live with more joy, despite circumstances.
Inspired by the New York Times bestseller The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, the film showcases the exchange between these two Nobel Peace Prize winners that led to that book.”