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Orlando massacre

Members of CCSJ join with the Holy Father and the world in condemning the Orlando massacre and offer up our prayers for the victims and their families. “Pope Francis joins the families of the victims and all of the injured in prayer and in compassion. Sharing in their indescribable suffering he entrusts them to the Lord so they may find comfort. We all hope that ways may be found, as soon as possible, to effectively identify and contrast the causes of such terrible and absurd violence which so deeply upsets the desire for peace of the American people and of the whole of humanity… More. 

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Tackling child labour

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

Today (June 12), the world observes World Day Against Child Labour, a global human rights issue that impacts adversely on human dignity and integral human development.

The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church states: “Child labour, in its intolerable forms, constitutes a kind of violence that is less obvious than others but it is not for this reason any less terrible. This is a violence that, beyond all political, economic and legal implications, remains essentially a moral problem.

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Time for an ‘ecological conversion’

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

Today (June 5), the world observes World Environment Day. Let us all “Join the race to make the world a better place.”

Years ago, St Pope John Paul II called the environmental crisis “a moral issue”.

I am in London at the moment, and recently spent hours enjoying the sights, sounds, and smells at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show (May 24-28) at which both Barbados and Grenada won Gold medals (third straight win for Barbados). T&T has also won medals there in the past.

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