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News update: Anglican Communion Environmental Network
by Rev Rachel Mash rmash@mweb.co.za
Image Rebecca Van Meulen , Diocese of Niassa, Mozambique

 

                               Just Water!

Around the world cathedrals, Dioceses and Churches took up the challenge of water justice.

The Trinity Institute hosted an International Just Water conference, four cathedrals took part in London, New York, Melbourne and Cape Town. Here is Archbishop Thabo Makgoba's speech: https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/video/trinity-institute-2017-water-justice-archbishop-thabo-makgoba

The Anglican Church of Canada worked with habitat for humanity to provide water to first nation communities: http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/pwrdf-works-with-habitat-for-humanity-to-provide-water-to-pikangikum-first-nation

‘Water is life’, says the Rt Revd Bertin Mwale Subi, new Bishop of Katanga diocese in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As part of the diocese’s commitment to participate in efforts on the environment and climate change, 2000 trees have been planted to protect the drinking water source.https://business.facebook.com/GreenAnglicans/insights/?business_id=806275029467915&section=navPosts

Bishop Raphael of Saldanha Diocese urges against a simplistic theology of praying for rain in drought stricken South Africa.https://business.facebook.com/GreenAnglicans/insights/?business_id=806275029467915&section=navPosts

To view the wonderful talks and for a host of resources around water justice visit:
http://www.justwater2017.org/
Hearing the cry of the poor and the  Earth 
Churches across London are planting trees to make their neighbourhoods more "bee friendly"
http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/02/churches-across-london-planting-trees-to-make-neighbourhoods-more-bee-friendly.aspx

Bishop Ablon of the Philippines joined a delegation who visited Canada to request that Canadian mining operations be monitored. People in resource-rich communities are being driven from their lands and from their sources of food and livelihoods into hunger and poverty, said  the bishop of Zamboanga del Sur province in Mindanao, one of the three islands in the Philippines. “People’s rights are being violated and some people who choose to stand their ground are being killed.”

http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/filipino-group-urges-canada-to-hold-mining-companies-accountable

On Earth Day, the Church of South India celebrated the silver Jubilee of their ecology department! They are leading the way for other provinces! http://www.csisynod.com/deptnews_view.php?Id=5405&cat=EC
Climate change
Around the world Anglicans are responding in many different ways to the challenges of climate change.
 
People of faith turned out in their thousands to support the  200, 000 strong Climate March in Washington on the 29th of April.
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2017/05/01/episcopalians-advocate-for-protecting-gods-creation-at-peoples-climate-march-and-beyond/



Bishops of the Episcopal Church issued a statement challenging President Trump's orders on climate change:
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2017/03/28/episcopal-bishops-issue-statement-in-response-to-trumps-executive-order-on-climate-change/

The Primates of Oceania, in support of the small island nations who are the most vulnerable to climate change, speak out on climate change :
http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/03/anglican-primates-of-oceania-speak-out-on-climate-change.aspx

The Diocese of Vermont in the USA has purchased a solar energy farm.http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/01/us-diocese-acquires-solar-energy-farm.aspx


150 Churches in Scotland celebrated Earth hour as part of the Scottish Eco-congregations Earth Hour Programme
http://www.ecocongregationscotland.org/materials/earth-hour-for-churches/
 
Energy
In a David and Goliath court case, the Southern African Faith Communities Institute founded by Bishop Geoff Davies had a one trillion rand nuclear deal with Russia overturned in court!
http://safcei.org/nuclear-deal-blocked/
Our Easter Hope!
All the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.
 
Colossians 1:10 (The Message)

 
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God bless
Rev Rachel Mash 
Anglican Communion Environmental Network
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