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Children plant trees on the feast of St. Francis in October 2019 in Indianapolis. Laudato Si' Week 2021 is May 16-25. (CNS/Courtesy of Indianapolis Archdiocese's Creation Care Commission) The Vatican's celebratory year for Pope Francis' encyclical on ecology is coming to a close, but organizers hope its end will mark the beginning of a major movement within the global Catholic Church to turn its message about preserving creation into actions to create a more sustainable world for all. In May 2020, the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development declared a Special Laud...

Indonesian police charge priest with public order offenses Father Heri Sitohango faces up to seven years in jail for allegedly inciting protests against a palm oil company Police in Kutai Timur district, East Kalimantan, arrest three men from the Dayak community in Long Bentuq following a protest against a palm oil company in the village. (Photo supplied) Police in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province have charged a Catholic priest with a public order offense in what he says is a move to silence him. Divine Word Father Heri Sitohango of St. Paul Parish in Long Bentuq in Samarinda Archd...

Papua clashes spark Catholic airlift operation Aid is being flown in to help refugees as clashes between Indonesian forces, rebels make land-based bid too risky Church aid workers hold up a banner that says 'Humanitarian aid for Bilogai' in the hall of St. Michael's Church in Bilogai, Intan Jaya district. (Photo supplied)   The Indonesian Catholic Church says it has been forced to fly in aid to help more than 1,000 people sheltering in a church compound amid ongoing clashes between security forces and Papuan rebels. Violence flared in and around the village of Bilogai in Papua’s Intan...

Indonesian govt urged to resolve mounting agrarian conflicts Report says at least 1,000 disputes were triggered by the presence of palm oil firms A farmer harvests fresh palm oil fruit at his plantation in Riau, Sumatra island, in this 2018 file photo. (Photo supplied by Palm Oil Farmers Union) Environmentalists in Indonesia have called on the government to try and settle more than 1,000 disputes triggered by the presence of palm oil plantations, including agrarian ones between indigenous people and palm oil companies across the country.  They said the situation is threatening to spiral ou...

Indigenous Indonesians mount palm oil blockade Dayak community in East Kalimantan demands $1 million in compensation for 'stolen lands and livelihoods' Indigenous people man a picket line blockading the Subur Abadi Wana Agung palm oil plantation in Long Bentuq in East Kalimantan’s Kuntai Timur district. (Photo supplied) An indigenous community in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province has launched a campaign seeking more than US1 million in compensation from a palm oil company by blockading its plantation. Members of the Dayak indigenous group from Long Bentuq in Kutai Timur dis...