"Vatican News reported that the Catholic leadership in Colombia has issued a call to the nation to get together on Sunday in order to experience an ecological conversion, to pray for rain, and to remember Pope Francis’ call to work and cultivate an integral ecology.
Vatican News expressed the following:
• “The national prayer, organized by the Episcopal Conference, took place on Sunday, January 28, within the framework of the fire
outbreaks that the country has been going through in recent days, aggravated by high temperatures and drought.”
• “Concerned about the critical situation in Colombia due to the scarcity of water and the multiple forest fires that have occurred in recent days in different regions, the country’s bishops held a national prayer on Sunday, January 28, to ask God for the gift of The rain. Likewise, they sent a letter to the People of God, in which they demonstrate ‘the need to have greater environmental awareness, as well as to undertake forceful actions that help prevent this type of risk’.”
• “In the message, the prelates allude to the current climate situation, accentuated by the ‘El Niño’ phenomenon, and emphasize the imperative to ‘direct our gaze to the God of life, asking him to move our hearts so that we undertake concrete actions of ecological conversion, encouraged by the care and conservation that we must have of our common home and of the poorest, who are the main affected.”
Roman Catholics were not the only churches observing this national day of prayer for rain on Sunday. According to the local news in Colombia, “all the communities of faith” would also be taking part in the Sunday ceremonies. La Guajira Hoy is a news agency in Riohacha, Colombia, and reported the following:
• “That is why this Sunday, all the parishes in La Guajira join in this
national prayer, as well as all the communities of faith, a prayer that they hope to replicate in the following days and thus united in common prayer. ‘May the Lord look upon us with mercy and grant us the water that falls from the sky and that also springs from the earth,’ said Wilmer Silva , priest of the San Isidro Labrador church in the Palomino district, Dibulla.” So on Sunday, all the churches gathered to pray to God for rain and for an ecological conversion." AdventMessenger
• “The national prayer, organized by the Episcopal Conference, took place on Sunday, January 28, within the framework of the fire
• “Concerned about the critical situation in Colombia due to the scarcity of water and the multiple forest fires that have occurred in recent days in different regions, the country’s bishops held a national prayer on Sunday, January 28, to ask God for the gift of The rain. Likewise, they sent a letter to the People of God, in which they demonstrate ‘the need to have greater environmental awareness, as well as to undertake forceful actions that help prevent this type of risk’.”
• “In the message, the prelates allude to the current climate situation, accentuated by the ‘El Niño’ phenomenon, and emphasize the imperative to ‘direct our gaze to the God of life, asking him to move our hearts so that we undertake concrete actions of ecological conversion, encouraged by the care and conservation that we must have of our common home and of the poorest, who are the main affected.”
Roman Catholics were not the only churches observing this national day of prayer for rain on Sunday. According to the local news in Colombia, “all the communities of faith” would also be taking part in the Sunday ceremonies. La Guajira Hoy is a news agency in Riohacha, Colombia, and reported the following:
• “That is why this Sunday, all the parishes in La Guajira join in this
