Cover Photo: CYNESA Executive Director Allen Ottaro addresses participants at the Laudato Si Conference (Photo Credit_Sally Axworthy) ******* “Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis, and the sufferings of the excluded.” These words from paragraph 13 of the encyclical Laudato […]
In his address to participants of the international conference on the third anniversary of Laudato Si, Pope Francis, highlighted the urgent need to respond to the encyclical’s call for change, for an ecological conversion. “Here we can think back on the call that Francis of Assisi received from the Lord in the little church of […]
It is my belief that networking and friends-rising are the major keys to expand one’s knowledge and understandings towards a particular subject. CYNESA has given that opportunity to most of its members through attending different conferences, workshops, seminars, meetings and so forth where they meet people from different backgrounds and expertise to discuss, engage and […]
On June 7, the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA) engaged the Coastal community of Kenya on issues of human-wildlife conflict from a Laudato Si perspective through a radio program hosted by Rebecca Makeo at Radio Tumaini in Voi, Kenya. Radio Tumaini is an initiative of Lwanga Communications headed by Rev. Fr […]