Our common home is everything
In Bolivia, CAFOD supports Caritas Bolivia to work with indigenous rural communities who are suffering rights abuses relating to their land and territories, using Laudato Si’ as its guiding compass.
The implications of the encyclical have profoundly changed the way Caritas Bolivia works, creating its ‘integral ecology’ social ministry team, not just promoting people’s rights, but also promoting care for our common home.
Mario and Violeta, staff members from Caritas Bolivia, shared with us their reflections.
Violeta says: “We understand that our common home does not just mean the environment – it’s everything: interpersonal relationships, our relationship with the common good, with the economy, with politics. We’re like guardians, like administrators of all of these gifts the Lord has given us. That’s how to understand integral ecology: respect, working as a community, working together with these gifts.”
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Publish date : 2023-05-25 03:00:00
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