Views: 0
Faith and Justice Network, Chairman Address Faith and Civil Society Organizations Leaders At AACC-LCC Climate Change Conference.
Careysburg-Liberia; The Chairperson of the Faith and Justice Network, Bishop Samuel Quire Jr, has praised leaders from Muslim, and Christian religions, environmentalists, and civil society organizations from East and West Africa for their participations in the just ended Regional Consultative Meeting On Climate Change held at Wulki Farm, Liberia.
Faith and Justice Network is an interior origination of the Liberia Council of Churches in collaboration with All Africa Conference of Churches advocating and campaigning for Climate Change and Climate Justice.
Addressing faith leaders, Bishop Samuel J.Quire Jr said, climate change is global phenomenon that effects our lives and has created confusion in the global community as the both old and rich are involved with the destruction of the earth .
Bishop Quire laments that it’s worth nothing that to acknowledge great presentations from faith leaders ,technical experts ,and other key stakeholders during the consultation and also further empower the African Faith Actors Network for Climate Justice to continuously foster national based action plan.
’’As a result of the consultation on Climate Change ,Liberia has joined other African Countries in the AFAN-CJ initiative and is committed to support climate justice initiative working with All African Conference of Churches’’ Bishop Quire adds.
The United Methodist Church and Annual Conference Liberia Bishop, in furtherance noted that it is very rewarding that the three days consultative approach has built faith leaders capacity to strengthen action on climate justice, share knowledge gain and adventure for innovative ways to mitigate climate change effects effect as the result of the challenges.
Quire, asked all at the meeting to commit themselves to increase awareness using our pulpits and voice stands to educate, advocate and campaign on climate change.
The consultative meeting on climate change was held under the auspices of the Liberia Council of Churches in collaboration with All Africa Conference of Churches with the theme “The Welfare of the Earth is Our Welfare’’and brought together over 50 representatives from nine (9) African countries.
At the conference, participants discussed the lslamic and Christian Perspectives On Climate Change, Interreligious Engagements Critical for Climatic Mitigation, Unpacking the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Theological Reflections On Climatic Change, and had a panel discussion of with stakeholders on leveraging faith actors’ moral authority to advocate for climate justice.
The head of UMC Liberia thanked the All Africa Conference of Churches and the Liberia Council of Chruches for bringing faith leaders together and brainstorm climate change .
