DEVELOPMENT & PEACE " SHARE LENT 2024 "
Share Lent 2024 – Reaping our Rights Message
from the Most Reverend William T. McGrattan,
President, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, It gives me great pleasure to introduce the new campaign from Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, the official international development organization of the Catholic Church in Canada. Building on last year’s theme of Create Hope, the 2024 campaign, Reaping our Rights, will create bridges of solidarity with small-scale farmers and peasant communities around the world. This campaign will be an opportunity to recognize their vital role in global food production and rural development. More than ever, these communities are facing challenges like armed conflicts, land grabbing, agribusiness, mining, soil contamination and climate change, which are causing or exacerbating droughts, floods, fires and hurricanes. The Reaping our Rights campaign will raise awareness of the need to acknowledge, enshrine and safeguard peasant peoples’ rights to land, water, justice, equality, gender equity, health, a safe environment, food sovereignty, biodiversity, education and housing. In Laudate Deum, Pope Francis reminds us that “Everything is connected” and “No one is saved alone” [19]. It follows that Canadians have a duty to ensure that peasants’ rights, human rights and environmental rights are fully respected, not only in Canada but everywhere in the world. On behalf of all the Bishops of Canada, I therefore hope you will join the Create Hope – Reaping our Rights campaign wholeheartedly through its Lenten phase by: • Encouraging your communities to give generously to Share Lent (especially, on Solidarity Sunday, i.e., the 5th Sunday of Lent, March 17, 2024), in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in the Global South who feed the planet while taking care of our Common home.
from the Most Reverend William T. McGrattan,
President, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, It gives me great pleasure to introduce the new campaign from Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, the official international development organization of the Catholic Church in Canada. Building on last year’s theme of Create Hope, the 2024 campaign, Reaping our Rights, will create bridges of solidarity with small-scale farmers and peasant communities around the world. This campaign will be an opportunity to recognize their vital role in global food production and rural development. More than ever, these communities are facing challenges like armed conflicts, land grabbing, agribusiness, mining, soil contamination and climate change, which are causing or exacerbating droughts, floods, fires and hurricanes. The Reaping our Rights campaign will raise awareness of the need to acknowledge, enshrine and safeguard peasant peoples’ rights to land, water, justice, equality, gender equity, health, a safe environment, food sovereignty, biodiversity, education and housing. In Laudate Deum, Pope Francis reminds us that “Everything is connected” and “No one is saved alone” [19]. It follows that Canadians have a duty to ensure that peasants’ rights, human rights and environmental rights are fully respected, not only in Canada but everywhere in the world. On behalf of all the Bishops of Canada, I therefore hope you will join the Create Hope – Reaping our Rights campaign wholeheartedly through its Lenten phase by: • Encouraging your communities to give generously to Share Lent (especially, on Solidarity Sunday, i.e., the 5th Sunday of Lent, March 17, 2024), in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in the Global South who feed the planet while taking care of our Common home.
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Click "Stand For Land " below for video
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Click image of "Canadian Corporate Activity " for video
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THE RIGHTS OF RURAL AND PEASANT COMMUNITIES
Everywhere on Earth, and especially in the Global South, impoverished populations are facing growing challenges due to climate change, land grabbing, resource theft, soil contamination and armed conflict. Rural populations are particularly affected by these upheavals, and Development and Peace — Caritas Canada supports them in defending their rights to life, land, water, biodiversity, justice, health, participation, decent livelihoods, a healthy environment and more. Click on the image to read the 12 page mini-magazine
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Development & Peace "THE WAY OF THE CROSS" Friday, March 15, 7pm at St. Augustine's Church
"SOLIDARITY SUNDAY MARCH 17, 2024 "
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Click on the "Why give? " image below for video.
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Click on the " HOPE " image below for video.
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For WEEKLY VIDEO REFLECTIONS
from now until Solidarity Sunday, click on this image
from now until Solidarity Sunday, click on this image
