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Forum of the Comboni Family on Integral Ecology 2025 – 3
Friday, November 14, 2025
Most participants in the Comboni Family Forum on Integral Ecology (CFFIE) took part in two events: 1. The “Cúpula dos Povos” meeting that dealt with the issues of solidarity, resistance and hope in relation to the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies and its effect on climate change. 2. The celebration of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of VIVAT International, an organization to which belong the Comboni sisters and the Comboni missionaries.
The "Cúpula dos Povos" is a conglomerate of more than a thousand associations and popular movements that work for social and environmental justice. In the debates, of the topics already mentioned, it was stressed that the energy transition must guarantee human rights, rights of the workers, care for nature and social well-being for all. People are not against the energy transformation but against the way it is being done favouring the few and continuing to pollute the environment.
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa (DRC); Bishop Léonard Ndjadi Ndjate, MCCJ, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kisangani (DRC);
and Father David Nyinga Dunga, MCCJ, a Congolese missionary in Peru.
The celebration of VIVAT International was lived in a spiritual, festive and joyful atmosphere. The ministry that this organization carries out promoting the human rights in the United Nations in New York and with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland, was underlined. The day concluded with the walk and vigil of prayer for the earth organized by the ecumenical and interreligious "Tapiri".