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Recognising and celebrating the gifts of the creation is challenged by growing environmental risks and increasing climate change. Our vision of the ecology of life calls us to radically review how we now live as individuals and communities.
ECEN promotes sharing, cooperation, action and theological reflection across our different countries and traditions in caring for creation.

Theme of Season of Creation 2025: Peace with Creation

"Our Biblical text for this year is Isaiah 32:14-18. The prophet Isaiah pictured the desolated Creation without peace because of the lack of justice and the broken relationship between God and humankind. This description of devastated cities and wastelands eloquently stresses the fact that human destructive behaviours have a negative impact on the Earth. Our hope: Creation will find peace when justice is restored. There is still hope and the....

Hope for Children Through Climate Justice - Legal Tools to Hold Financiers Accountable 2025

1 April 2025

The urgency of the climate catastrophe demands strong and effective responses. With fossil fuels driving over 75% of global CO2 emissions, we need to hold...

The Nicaea Centenary & Creation Day - Questions for Readers of the Website

7 March 2025

In order to encourage one another for the 2025 Season of Creation could you share how you will begin the season this year in your...

THE NICAEA CENTENARY & CREATION DAY

7 March 2025

2nd Ecumenical Conference on the New Liturgical Feast, Assisi (& Zoom), 4-8 May 2025 In March 2024, a historic ecumenical conference took place in Assisi...

A Christian Vision for Sustainable Food Systems – Launch Event

8 January 2025

Join the launch of the ‘Our Daily Bread’ network – an innovative initiative bringing together Christian faith-based organisations to advocate for sustainable and just food...

GLAM Radio: Away with Fossil Fuel, on with Renewables - Which?

16 September 2024

22 September 2024 from 7 PM to 8 PM The largest energy producer in Italy, Enel Corporate spa has announced the Zero Emissions objective for...

4 September 2024

The European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN) seeks a part time Executive Secretary. The position can be based within the home country of the secretary country...

Ecumenical Patriarch shares opening message for Season of Creation

30 August 2024

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople, shared a message on the opening of Season of Creation 2024. “The environmental threat is...

Prayer Service for Creation Day

27 August 2024

This 1 September, Day of Creation, also known as Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation or Feast of Creation, opens the Season of...

#EUARE2024

19 August 2024

The Seventh Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion was held in Palermo, Italy, May 20-23, 2024 and was organized by FSCIRE. The overarching...

Calendar

04.05.2025	THE NICAEA CENTENARY & CREATION DAY
15.01.2025	A Christian Vision for Sustainable Food Systems – Launch Event
04.10.2024	Closing Prayer Service of the Season of Creation - 4 Oct 2024
30.09.2024	Education for Sustainable Development – Spiritual Dimensions

A few words about the new ECEN Secretary

Claire Mesnards

My name is Claire des Mesnards. I have been working within the United Protestant Church of France as a pastor for 6 years. Before turning to theology, I worked with Civil Society Organisations in networks like the European Confederation of NGOs for sustainable development and international cooperation (CONCORD) and the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) of which I was coordinator for the European region during the Action2015 campaign on climate and the Sustainable Development Goals. These were the first places where, after studying philosophy and political science, I tried to voice together with others my genuine concern for people and the planet. For me this concern is deeply rooted in Christian faith and explains why I responded to a call to serve Jesus Christ as a pastor.

Currently, I live in Nîmes, a small and beautiful Roman city known as one of the Reformation’s cradles in France. I am working full time for the local protestant parish. Together with a number of friends I have been closely involved in founding a Peoples University on Religions. The purpose of this specific project is to provide an open and neutral space where the diversity of beliefs can be approached in-depth by a wide audience. In the French context where religious questions are often relegated to the private sphere as a result of the 1905 separation of religion and the state, there is a desperate need to overcome ignorance and the resulting tensions that it can trigger between citizens.

Beside this and the usual activities related to pastoral care, I share my day-to-day life with Paul Kleiber, an Earth-lover who has over the years helped raise my awareness about the state of our planet. We are getting married on April 26! We will then move to the countryside in the North of France where we hope to get involved in permaculture – a dream Paul has had for a long time and which I now share. This new move brings together my initial background in biology and my long-standing interest in health and the environment. We would be grateful for your prayers and support as a new chapter of our lives opens. We strive for balanced relationships with God’s Creation and are eager to learn from every encounter.

Looking forward to meeting you and welcoming you!

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