Catholic Bishops under the Inter-regional Meeting of Bishops in Southern Africa (IMBISA) have expressed their concern for environmental destruction within their territories and called for “responsible attitude towards the gift of creation” in the light the second encyclical of Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ - "On Care For Our Common Home".
The concern and call were expressed in the declaration at the conclusion of their five-day plenary assembly, which concluded on Monday, November 26.
“Planet earth, which is God’s gift and common home to all creatures, is gradually being destroyed by us human beings,” the Bishops lamented, welcoming the Pope’s call to conversion interpreted as “changing attitudes and behaviours that harm the earth, diminish human dignity, impoverish quality of life and create inequality in society.”
The Bishops met under the theme: “Empowering the laity for effective engagement in socio political and environmental issues: ‘Laudato Si’ as a point of reference.”
In their declaration, the Church leaders mandated the Secretariat and staff of IMBISA “to gather and disseminate information informed by ‘Laudato Si’.
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis criticizes irresponsible development and consumerism and decries global warming and different forms of environmental degredation and challenges all the inhabitants of the planet earth to take “swift and unified global action."
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