Tag: indigenous people
VIDEO: How faith and Indigenous wisdom safeguarded the only sustainable water...
Once devastated by logging, the restored forests now provide abundant, clean water, sustaining 120 households even during dry seasons.
SPOTLIGHT: “They burned our home and killed our brothers”
Shifting donor priorities leave Catholic Church struggling to support Indigenous people's desperate defense of their ancestral land in Bangladesh
Voices of faith | Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Cambodia (Jarai, Kreung,...
The Khmer Loeu (Khmer: ជនជាតិខ្មែរលើ “upper Khmers”) is the collective name given to the various indigenous ethnic groups residing in the highlands of Cambodia....
Voices of faith | Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Tampuan
Tampuan (also spelled Tompuan or Tampuon, Tumpoun, Tumpuon, Khmer: ទំពួន) are an indigenous ethnic group living in northeast Cambodia. Numbering about 31,000, the Tampuan...
Groups urge gov’t to prioritize reopening of Lumad schools in Mindanao
An estimate of 10,000 IP students in Mindanao who were affected after the discontinuation of over 200 Lumad schools
Vatican diplomat to India and Nepal urges recognition of Indigenous traditions...
Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli described tribal life as naturally synodal, rooted in mutual belonging and collective decision-making
Courage to embrace liturgical inculturation
The very essence of Synodality—communion, participation, and mission—may hold the Church’s last, best hope for genuine inculturation
Indian bishop spotlights shortcomings in Asian Church’s approach to Indigenous Peoples
Bishop Gerald John Mathias of Lucknow has called upon the Catholic Church in Asia to intensify its commitment to Indigenous Peoples, highlighting a history...
Nepal’s bishop calls for unity in diversity, synodality, and Indigenous wisdom...
He said synodality is fundamentally a “Spiritual Experience,” underscoring the Church’s call to actively listen to diverse perspectives
SPOTLIGHT: Greenwashed promises: Irregularities taint consent process in hydropower projects
With renewable energy goals driving government policies, the question arises: will these projects truly serve the people whose lands are at stake?
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