For our final newsletter of 2024 – a year in which we celebrated two decades of inspiring the Church to take action on the climate crisis – we thought it would be appropriate to compile 20 highlights from our 20 years of climate campaigning: 10 from our two decades of history, 10 from 2024.
Of course, there is no campaigning without you: your financial support, your grassroots activism and your commitment to caring for God’s creation is what keeps us going and what allowed us to win the prestigious ‘Campaign of the Year’ award at the National Campaigner Awards in May.
If you’re inspired by all that we have achieved together and want to make a financial gift to Operation Noah, we are still trying to raise £20,000 by the end of the year as part of our Anniversary Appeal – and we are nearly three quarters of the way there. You can donate here.
Finally, from all of us at Operation Noah, we want to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to campaigning with you in 2025.
The Operation Noah Team (added 21/12/2024
Please find attached the latest newsletter from Mouthpeace and from NW NJPN. Best wishes Jennie Co-Chair Liverpool archdiocese Justice and Peace Commission nw_njpn_justice_and_peace_e_bulletin_march_2024.pdf spring_mouthpeace_2024.pdf 
Here we are at the beginning of another Church year, with the end of 2023 rapidly approaching! It's been another busy one, and we're very excited about what's to come.
We have a number of resources here to help you and your communities engage with Advent, not forgetting that COP28 falls at the beginning of the season, so there's plenty to get involved with!
With all best wishes for the season, The Journey to 2030 Team (added 12/12/2023)
Indigenous Leader from the Brazilian Amazon Alessandra Munduruku Is Awarded Goldman Environmental Prize Alessandra Korap Munduruku, leader of the Munduruku Indigenous peoples from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in recognition of her longstanding and extraordinary activism in defense of the Amazon rainforest and the rights of Indigenous peoples in Brazil and internationally. Stopping Anglo American’s plan to explore for copper in their territory was one of the many struggles taken on by Alessandra and the Munduruku that led her to be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. In May 2021, the company formally committed to withdrawing 27 mining research permits that were slated to overlap Indigenous lands in Brazil. These permits were a major threat to Indigenous peoples, as well as their territories and livelihoods. We celebrate and honor the life and journey of resistance by the great Indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku. May her example in defending her territory and advocating for the lives of Munduruku children and women be recognized by all and serve as a source of inspiration and strength for us to continue our work in defense of the Amazon in solidarity with all Indigenous peoples. FIND OUT MORE » |
Jubilee
On the subject of Jubilee we shared many different resources. And ideas as to how the diocese can bring this to the forefront of people’s imagination. How can we renew commitments such as covenants with the poor or celebrating centenaries? How can we work together to look at things like debt cancellation.
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Help support those in need. (added 12/12/2024)
HAPPY CHRISTMAS! We start our newsletter with a pre-Christmas celebration! This week we reached our annual target of making 50 new befriending matches. Thank you to all our committed and compassionate volunteer befrienders who have taken on a new befriendee this year. And thank to volunteers who have continued with existing befriending relationships. We currently support a total of 98 befriending matches. We have some new volunteers from our October training course who we hope will start befriending early in 2025.
Impact of befriending: We are enjoying reading feedback from our annual survey of befriended refugees. One wrote, “Having a befriender has been an incredibly positive experience. It’s comforting to have someone to talk to and share thoughts with, especially when feeling isolated or in need of support. I’ve enjoyed the genuine connection and the feeling of being listened to without judgment. Meeting my befriender has been a great opportunity to build trust and create meaningful conversations. If I could change anything, it would be to have more frequent meetings, as they’ve been so uplifting and valuable to me.” (added 21/12/2024)
Easter 2024
Welcome to the CCA Ark Newsletter for Easter 2024. I hope that you have been enjoying a fruitful and reflective Lenten period over the last few weeks, and you should hopefully receive this newsletter during Holy Week. CCA has had a very busy period in the first few months of 2024 with activity across the globe, including important visits in both Europe and Africa, and also continued work and collaboration with animal advocacy individual colleagues and organisations from the USA, Latin/South America and Asia.
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Link to Pax Christi newsletter (added 25/04/2024)
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Dear friends
Please find attached the latest newsletter from NW NJPN.
Best wishes
Jennifer Rowlands
Co-Chair
Archdiocese of Liverpool Justice and Peace Commission
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The Birmingham Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission is funded by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham and the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) and is a member of the Caritas - Archdiocese of Birmingham Network