OLA Ireland Supports the Make it Your Business Campaign
The Irish Coalition for Business and Human Rights (ICBHR) is campaigning for new corporate accountability legislation to prevent abuses by making Irish-based companies accountable for a range of corporate human rights violations including forced labour, land grabs,...
COMECE releases the first report of its Interfaith Youth Convention
Press Release, 10/11/2021 COMECE releases the first report of its Interfaith Youth Convention The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) releases on Wednesday 10 December 2021 the first report of its Interfaith Youth...
OLA Joint Submission to UPR Shapes Stakeholders Summary
We are delighted to report that our UPR joint submission has definitely shaped the Summary of Stakeholders' Information report prepared by the OHCHR - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Our submission is referenced 18 times across 12 paragraphs in the...
Message from Irish Missionaries to Leaders at COP 26
Vocations Ireland and AMRI have put together the following video with messages from Irish Missionaries to the leaders at COP 26. OLA Justice Officer, John McGeady shares a message on our behalf. What is COP 26? COP stands for Conference of the Parties is...
OLA Sisters Co-Found New Irish Antenna of AEFJN
In July 2021, the OLA Sisters Irish Province, in collaboration with other Religious Congregations, co-founded a new Antenna, or branch, of the Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network - AEFJN. In September, the new Antenna decided to join the Irish Coalition on...
CELEBRATE CREATION: Season of Creation Draws to a Close
As we continue our journey to an Integral Ecology, we share with you Pope Francis’s video which invites us to join the Laudato Si’ Action Platform. Caring for our brothers and sisters means caring for the home we share. This responsibility is “essential to a life of...
Announcing the Cork Conference on Intergenerational Climate Justice 2021
PRESS RELEASE The second CORK CONFERENCE ON INTERGENERATIONAL CLIMATE JUSTICE “Hope for the Future: System Change, Not Climate Change” An dara Comhdháil Chorcaí faoi Cheartas Aeráide Idirghlúine “Dóchas don Todhchaí : Athrú Córais, Ní Athrú Aeráide” Date: Thursday,...
Joint Appeal for Care for Creation by Church Leaders
Pope Francis, together with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby have for the first time come together to jointly appeal to people to do what they can for the future of our planet. They have called for us all to pray during this Season of...
Nature Walks – Tracton Biodiversity Group
Tracton Biodiversiy Group is a local Cork Group collaborating locally to bring attention to biodiversity, identifying needs at local level and linking up individuals with other networks and organisations in support of the biodiversity agenda in Europe. Here they share...
Biodiversity and Chemical Spraying
In this sobering video, Maria Young of Green Spaces for Health explains that the world has entered it's sixth major extinction event, unique, since it is caused by humans. The chemical spraying of crops has a devastating effect on pollination and while it isn't the...