This past September, UN Secretary General Antonio Guteres challenged world leaders to bring transformative climate change commitments to a summit in New York City. But what attracted media coverage around the globe was the March to End Fossil Fuels, a 75,000-person mobilization that attracted global media coverage.
GreenFaith was one of the march’s leading organizers. We mobilized thousands of people of faith and hundreds of religious organizations to march for climate justice together. [Watch the video] and hosted a multi-faith prayer service before the march with Indigenous, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and Unitarian speakers.
Together, we marched, sang, chanted, and prayed for an end to fossil fuels with a beautiful, vibrant faith contingent. I was there that day, and I will never forget our joy, love, and collective strength and hope. Your support made this possible. Thank you.
90 minutes from Rio de Janeiro is Magé, a city with characteristic Brazilian socio-cultural diversity, located between spectacular mountains and the famous Guanabara Bay. But Magé’s local fisherfolk have suffered from toxic contamination of the nearby river and bay from a nearby oil refinery, and deadly landslides due to drenching, climate-exacerbated rains. These conditions threaten the community’s existence and have overwhelmed Magé’s sanitation systems and infrastructure.
In 2023, we worked with the grassroots from Magé’s Climate Forum and local Catholic, Evangelical, Buddhist, Umbanda, and Candomblé religious leaders there. Watch this video to learn more.
Our goal in 2024, we will organize people of diverse faiths in Magé and organize our first public action to confront climate injustice.
Please support our work as generously as you can.
In faith and solidarity,
Rose and the GreenFaith Digital Team
Building a Worldwide, Multi-faith Climate and Environmental Movement.
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