From today to 4th October Christians around the world, including from the Church of England will join together for the Season of Creation, a festival of prayer and community action to help protect the natural world.
An Ecumenical initiative launched in 1989, Season of Creation was given a major boost by Pope Francis in 2016 when, speaking before nearly 2 million people at the World Youth Day in Krakow, he declared 1 September an annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
With devastating wildfires in the Amazon and Siberia, the hottest late August Bank Holiday on record in the UK, and global wildlife populations reported to have reduced by 60 per cent between 1970 and 2014, more and more people are being moved to action.
Under its full theme ‘The Web of Life: Biodiversity as God’s blessing’, Season of Creation 2019 encourages churches and communities to hold sustainability events, including cleaning local waterways, planting trees and allowing churchyards and other spaces to grow wild in order to encourage biodiversity.
Participants are encouraged to share images that celebrate the biodiversity around their church on social media using the hashtag #SeasonofCreation.
The Bishop of Salisbury, Nicholas Holtam a member of the Season of Creation Steering panel who also chairs the Church of England’s Environmental Working Group, said: “We love…
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