Film screening: The Letter, a Message for Our Earth

Director: Nicolas Brown 
Year: 2022 
Country: Vatican City and The Netherlands 
Duration: 81 min 
Language: Various with subtitles in English 

In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si’ (The Letter); an encyclical letter about the environmental crisis to every single person in the world. A few years later, four voices that have gone unheard in global conversations have been invited to an unprecedented dialogue with the Pope. Hailing from Senegal, the Amazon, India, and Hawai’i, they bring perspective and solutions from the poor, the indigenous, the youth, and wildlife into a conversation with Pope Francis himself. This documentary follows their journey to Rome and the extraordinary experiences that took place there, and is packed with powerfully moving personal stories alongside the latest information about the planetary crisis and the toll it’s taking on nature and people.  
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This film was presented to the New Vision for the Earth film festival to highlight the crucial contributions faith actors are making to climate change adaptation and mitigation. These include lobbying, campaigning, promoting and carrying out landscape restoration initiatives. Examples of such contributions can be found below:  

• Engaging faith-based organizations in land restoration across Africa  
• Role of religious leaders in environmental conservation
• Faith-Based Approaches for Land Restoration in Kenya
• Faith-based and faith-inspired approaches to land restoration
• The Church Forests of Ethiopia
• Faith groups help to save disappearing forests
• Faith-based Engagement at COP28
• How Faith Actors are Preventing Food Loss in Rwanda | KAICIID

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