Share Lent donations received at Holy Redeemer: $6,307.50
Thank you for your generosity and for taking action to “Create Hope”!
** Remember to watch for the Fall Campaign for Development & Peace which will provide new opportunities to “Create Hope” and to join in solidarity with the people of the global south to “Stand for the Land”.
March 25-26 Solidarity Sunday
The presentation of the the 4 Symbols of Solidarity and the Special Share Lent collection took place at each Mass.
Symbols of Solidarity
These Symbols are a source of hope for communities and people of the Global South impoverished by exploitation and loss of their land.
Your contribution to The special Share Lent collection helps to support Development and Peace in 86 projects in 40 countries to empower the communities to “Stand for their Land” and a better future.
To make a contribution:
Use the Share Lent collection envelope
PADP
Email Transfer to Holy Redeemer ( holyredeemer@ssmd.ca )
2023 marks the beginning of a new campaign cycle for Development & Peace. The new theme for the year will be introduced for Share Lent when the focus will be to raise awareness, education and fundraising for D&P projects through the Share Lent collection on Solidarity Sunday. In the Fall the focus will shift to a call for action.
Development & Peace Share Lent 2023
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Lenten Fridays:
5:00 pm – Cheese Pizza $2.00 per slice (a portion of the revenue goes to D & P)
5:30 pm – Stations of the Cross
* Friday, March 24 th – the Share Lent Solidarity Stations
Share Lent Calendar and your Donations Jar
Follow the reflections for each day on the Share Lent campaign to see how you can – Create Hope – Stand for the Land
Sunday, March 26th – Solidarity Sunday –
Presentation of the 4 Solidarity Symbols
Special Collection for Share Lent
Follow the Campaign using:
Images and articles at the display table
Online videos and reflections on the Holy Redeemer and Development & Peace websites
Sunday Bulletin – to see the Campaign focus for the week
PREVIOUS CAMPAIGNS
Fall 2022
Let’s keep calling for due diligence to put People and Planet First!
Development and Peace’s People and PlanetFirst campaign continues this fall calling on Canada to prevent its corporations from abusing human rights and the environment in their overseas operations and global supply chains. Since September 2021, over 24,000 people have signed our petition calling for Canadian due diligence legislation.
Become a member of Development and Peace to live out your faith (devp.org/joinus). Act in solidarity with the communities whose struggles for a more just world we support.
The Parliamentary Petition
As part of D&P’s Fall 2021 Campaign the D&P Parliamentary petition asks the federal government to enact laws that will compel Canadian companies to conduct due diligence across their overseas operations and that will give the victims of their abuses access to justice in Canadian courts.
Thank you to all members of our parish community here at Holy Redeemer who signed our Parliamentary Petition on our signing weekend, November 6&7. We gathered 94 signatures which will be presented to our local MP – more to follow.
As of February 2022 nation-wide the parliamentary petition has 3,479 signatures and 13 meetings have taken place with Members of Parliament to present the signed petition and to urge that legislation be introduced to put new regulations in place in order to make companies accountable for injustices they cause in the global south.
Petition text:
Petition to the House of Commons
Whereas,
ˍ companies based in Canada are contributing to human rights abuse and environmental damage around the world;
ˍ people who protest these abuses and defend their rights are often harassed, attacked or killed.
Indigenous Peoples, women and marginalized groups are especially under threat; and
ˍ Canada encourages but does not require companies to prevent such harms in their global operations and supply chains.
We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to adopt human rights and environmental due diligence legislation that would:
ˍ require companies to prevent adverse human rights impacts and environmental damage throughout their global operations and supply chains;
ˍ require companies do their due diligence, including by carefully assessing how they may be contributing to human rights abuse or environmental damage abroad and by providing access to remedy when harms occur;
ˍ result in meaningful consequences for companies that fail to carry out and report on adequate due diligence; and
ˍ establish a legal right for people who have been harmed to seek justice in Canadian courts.
G20 Rome Summit – October 2021
The G20 Heads of State and Government Summit will be held in Rome on October 30th and 31st 2021 , with the participation of the G20 Heads of State and Government, of their counterparts from invited countries, and of the representatives of some of the main international and regional organizations.
In 2021 the international community will need to show courage and ambition in order to overcome the great challenges of today: from recovering from the pandemic to addressing climate change, from supporting innovation to overcoming poverty and inequality.
COP26 UN Summit on Climate Change – October 31 to November 12 2021
Goals:
Finalise the Paris Rulebook (the detailed rules that make the Paris Agreement operational) – What countries must do to achieve zero emissions by 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
Accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis through collaboration between governments, businesses and civil society.
WHY DOES LIMITING TEMPERATURE RISE TO 1.5 DEGREES MATTER?
At 2 degrees of global warming, there would be widespread and severe impacts on people and nature. A third of the world’s population would be regularly exposed to severe heat, leading to health problems and more heat-related deaths.
Almost all warm water coral reefs would be destroyed, and the Arctic sea ice would melt entirely at least one summer per decade, with devastating impacts on the wildlife and communities they support. We cannot rule out the possibility that irreversible loss of ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic
could be triggered, leading to several metres of sea level rise over centuries to come.
At 1.5°C, the impacts would be serious, but less severe. There would be lower risks of food and water shortages, lower risks to economic growth and fewer species at risk of extinction. Threats to human health from air pollution, disease, malnutrition and exposure to extreme heat would also be lower.
That is why every fraction of a degree of warming matters, and why we are dedicated to keeping the prospect of holding temperature rises to 1.5 degrees alive.
This year, Development and Peace — Caritas Canada’s Create Hope: Stand for the land campaign calls you to support our sisters and brothers in the Global South in defending their land and territory. Do this by:
Donating online at devp.org/give or during the Solidarity Sunday collection on March 26, the fifth Sunday of Lent. Your generosity helps support over 86 projects in 40 countries around the world!
Learning more by reading the Mini-magazine and other resources available at devp.org/lent/resources.
Meet our solidarity visitors and participate in the campaign launch webinar on February 25 at 1:30 p.m. ET.
Scratch that: feds to rethink Ring of Fire environmental assessment after First Nations criticism
Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has agreed to scrap a draft framework for a regional assessment in the Ontario Ring of Fire region and start over, working with First Nations.
For over a decade, governments and companies have sought to mine in the remote and environmentally-sensitive area known as the Ring of Fire. Accessible only by plane, or ice road in the winter, it’s located in the James Bay Lowlands and has deposits of key minerals that some people want to mine to fuel the production of electric vehicles. The federal Impact Assessment Agency has been working on a regional assessment in the area for the last three years, a review which is meant to use western science and Indigenous Knowledge to inform future development.
Aroland First Nation Chief Dorothy Towedo said in an email that finalizing terms of reference that are acceptable to all the First Nations in the region is just the beginning of resolving her concerns. Proposed road development would run through Aroland, and lead to enormous change in the lives of the community. Though Towedo said she understands the need to do things quickly, six months might not be enough, as “we owe it to our children and our grandchildren to do this right and not rush into anything.”
There isn’t a lot of precedent for what the Ring of Fire regional assessment might look like. As it unfold, Neskantaga First Nation is among the communities asking for a greater say in discussions about the region’s future. Photos: Sara Hylton / The Narwhal
“We are a small community and our staff and leadership are already stretched to the limits of what they’re capable of because we have so many responsibilities to our people,” Towedo said.
“Timelines like this are a colonial imposition that don’t allow us to account for these challenges.”
A Madagascan community deeply affected by impacts of climate change and poverty. Through this project, the community transformed itself into a thriving ecological village developed by and for the villagers.
Share Lent 2022 Collection
Development & Peace thanks all at Holy Redeemer who so generously gave from the heart to the Share Lent Collection in support of D&P projects that empower impoverished communities in the global south.
As of May 1/22 our parish has collected $7,052.
THANK YOU !
If you have not had a chance to donate you can contribute by going to the D&P website. You can also donate through Holy Redeemer by cheque, pre-authorized donation withdrawal, or by E-Transfer. A tax receipt will be issued from our parish.
On May 24, 2022 a delegation from Holy Redeemer met with Viviane Lapoint, our local member of parliament to present our signed D&P petition from the Fall 2021 Campaign with 116 in-person signatures. The petition calls on the Federal Government to enact due diligence legislation to ensure that Canadian companies with operations in the global south conduct business in a manner which respects the environment and safeguards human rights.
Pope Francis calls young people today to form “a different kind of economy: one that brings life, not death, one that is inclusive and not exclusive, humane and not dehumanizing, one that cares for the environment and does not despoil it”. (The Economy of Francesco event, 2019)
It is time for the dignity of the human person and the health of our common home to be front and centre. The push for profit and economic growth at all costs has meant life and death decisions are made far away from the people on the ground. With climate change, growing disparities of wealth and health and neo-colonial ideas, we see: “some parts of our human family, it appears, can be readily sacrificed for the sake of others considered worthy of a carefree existence.” (Fratelli Tutti, 18).
In 2020, 720 to 811 million people experienced hunger on a daily basis and 1 in 3 people faced food insecurity. Sadly studies confirm that there is enough food to feed all however many do not have access to the food due to systemic inequalities caused by colonialism, exploitation, unfair debt loads which burden countries in the global south.
Let’s be inspired by, and learn from, leaders around the world who are putting people and planet first! The communities that D&P’s partners work with represent some of these leaders. This Lent we will focus on D&P projects in 3 countries Honduras, Madagascar and Cambodia where D&P works with local partners to help communities become more self sustaining by introducing concepts such as Agroecology where growing is done in harmony with the local ecology and the Eco-village using community gardens to reduce food insecurity.
Mission
The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, a democratic movement for international solidarity, supports partners in the Global South in the pursuit of alternatives to unjust social, political and economic structures.
We pray for Development and Peace’s partners; may they continue, through our support, to build a world of kindness, justice and peace.
After the Storm: Building the Pope Francis Village, the Philippines
This 47-minute documentary, is an inspiring journey that follows poor coastal communities in Tacloban, the Philippines who lost everything to Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. When local organizations supported by Development and Peace –Caritas Canada arrive to work alongside these communities, they are confronted by survivors who are dispossessed, living in tents, dependent on aid, and facing eviction from the land they have always known.
But what happens when you bring the people together? When they are given a voice and a chance to be heard? When they know how to take action?
Find out in After the Storm, as Development and Peace works with 550 families to transform a piece of land into new homes, a new community, and new lives for over 1300 survivors…
Advocacy for global justice is something that the members of Development and Peace see as integral to their faith commitment. As humanity faces an unprecedented ecological crisis in the decade ahead, advocacy that cares for our common home is vital.
View the D&P Webinar on advocating for government commitment to action on climate change and saving our Common Home –
One of the Six Principles for a Just Recovery is building resilience to prevent future crises. Our common home has been facing a climate and environmental crisis for many decades now. Take a look at the For the Love of Creation initiative’s faithful climate conversations resources and organize a Zoom call with your family and friends to discuss the protection of our planet!
Women are on the frontlines of the pandemic, both because of its specific negative impacts on them and because they play vital roles in their families’ and communities’ response to it. Want to make a small gesture of solidarity with womankind? Our week’s theme is youth engagement. Consider writing to an inspiring young woman in your life
Donate to D&P online .. Thank you!
Bishop Dowd calls us to Action -
Share Lent Mini-Magazine
2023 marks the beginning of a new campaign cycle for Development & Peace. The new theme for the year will be introduced for Share Lent when the focus will be to raise awareness, education and fundraising for D&P projects through the Share Lent collection on Solidarity Sunday. In the Fall the focus will shift to a call for action.
A Madagascan community deeply affected by impacts of climate change and poverty. Through this project, the community transformed itself into a thriving ecological village developed by and for the villagers.
enact due diligence legislation to ensure that Canadian companies with operations in the global south conduct business in a manner which respects the environment and safeguards human rights.
