Laudato Si' Movement

In a significant step toward deeper collaboration in ecological mission and media advocacy, Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) and the Laudato Si’ Movement (LSM) officially signed a Partnership Framework Agreement during the Laudato Si’ webinar hosted by RVA on July 31, 2025.

The Barishal Catholic Diocese in Bangladesh celebrated Laudato Si’ Day in an inter-religious gathering organized by the diocesan Commission for Justice and Peace at the Bishop’s House hall room on June 4.

Local churches, clean energy groups, and communities across Quezon province celebrated World Environmental to uphold their right to a healthy environment and sustainable energy, as the province continues to confront pollution from a massive fleet of operating and proposed fossil fuel projects, according to a statement.

Pope Leo XIV made a surprise visit on Thursday, May 30, to the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, where he toured the Borgo Laudato Sì, a project dedicated to ecological education and care for creation, launched by Pope Francis.

Caritas Bangladesh, the social action arm of the Catholic Church in the country, observed Laudato Si’ week at Caritas Rajshahi regional office on May 27.

In a powerful display of environmental consciousness and spiritual solidarity, the Catholic Church in Bangladesh hosted a day-long seminar centered on Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical Laudato Si, marking its 10th anniversary on May 24.

In the lead-up to the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si', Bishop Gerry Alminaza of the Diocese of San Carlos co-celebrated Mass at the historic Notre-Dame de Paris alongside Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims, appealing for support from the French community in urging French banks to cease financing fossil fuel projects threatening the Verde Island Passage (VIP) in the Philippines—hailed as the “Amazon of the Oceans.”

On the occasion of the 10th year of Laudato Si, religious and lay leaders appealed to people to do their share in protecting and conserving nature.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ groundbreaking encyclical on care for our common home, Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) is set to host a special webinar titled “Celebrating 10 Years of Laudato Si’: The Asian Voices for our Common Home” on May 23, in Manila, Philippines.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Laudato si’, Pope Leo XIV addressed the Network of Universities for the Care of Our Common Home with a videomessage, encouraging their synodal discernment ahead of COP30.

An Indian Catholic social worker and environmentalist was among the recipients of the 8th TCJ Excellence Awards 2025 in Mumbai, western India.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, a special Asia Pacific -wide webinar titled “A Decade of Laudato Si’: Pope Francis’ Prophetic Legacy, and the Road to COP30” will be held on 29 May 2025.

With a continued focus on environmental care, the Church of St. John Marie Vianney, Tampin, has initiated taking up the Ecological Parish Pledge.

A tree planting Activity held was held at the SVD (Society of the Divine Word) Farm’s St. Peter’s Fishpond and Gazebo in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home, on May 3.

For the first time since the Paris Agreement, no new financing was recorded for domestic Philippine banks throughout 2024, a positive development that advocates say is telling of the increasing viability of renewable energy in the country, says think-tank Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED), in a statement on Tuesday, April 23.

On Good Friday, April 18, the Laudato Si' Movement (LSM) Korea Chapter led over 50 priests, religious, and laypeople in an Ecological Way of the Cross, journeying from Gwanghwamun Square—one of Seoul’s busiest intersections—to Myeongdong Cathedral, the heart of the Archdiocese of Seoul.