Webinar on Theologies, Ecologies and Extractivism

Source: London Mining Network

Churches and Mining Network and DKA Austria will be holding a webinar conversation on Theologies, Ecologies and Extractivism, on Wednesday, 30th June at 7pm from Brussels and Rome...

The extractivist model is approaching its tipping point, but the economic model dependent on the plundering of territories is increasingly looking for ways to drain the blood from the Earth, the rivers, the forests. Mining is a common evil in the indigenous territories, in the peasant lands that try to live on agriculture, fishing, as a way of life. The communities and peoples who can help us recover the integrality of life are "pressure is being put on them to abandon their homelands to make room for agricultural or mining projects which are undertaken without regard for the degradation of nature and culture" (LS 146)

Listening to the cries of the communities affected by big mining, added to the groans of Mother Earth, the Reflection Group on Theologies and Extractivism, formed by theologians from Europe and Latin America and convened by the network Churches and Mining (IyM) and DKA Austria, seeks to constitute a space that helps the churches to walk in "concern for nature, for justice with the poor, for a shared commitment to society and for inner peace" (cf. LS 10).

Considering the present moment in which humanity is living, facing the pandemic that denounces the ecocidal and genocidal condition of the current economic model, the webinar seeks to illuminate, from Christian social ethics, the ways to overcome inequality that is effective for the benefit of financial markets but is far from an integral human development (cf. FT 21).

The Churches and Mining Network with its Mining Divestment Campaign, and DKA of Austria, with its campaign on The Use of Gold in the Churches, invite you to this Public Forum: 'Feeling with the Earth: Theologies for Resistance in times of extractivism" to be held on June 30 at 12noon. There will be translations in English and Spanish. This meeting is part of the Listening for the Latin American Ecclesial Assembly. The seminar will present reflections from three thematic axes: Mining and Ethical Pastoral Perspective; Theologies, Gold and Liturgy; and Post Colonial Theologies. The reflections generated from these topics by specialists seek a pedagogical approach that allows us to question, build and illuminate the action of the community of faith in the face of realities. This is invitation to find ethical coherence in the construction of a Samaritan Economy and of the Common Good.

For link to the Zoom and registrations see: https://bit.ly/SentirLaTierraWeb

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