Clearinghouse Church & Environment

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The Church & Environment clearing office was a joint project of the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Commission for Societal and Social Issues (Commission VI) of the German Bishops' Conference and was funded and supported by the German Federal Environment Foundation. It was established in November 1998 at the Philosophical-Theological College of the Salesians Don Bosco in Benediktbeuern and was directed by Markus Vogt . In spring 2007 the clearing house was closed.

The work was based on the publication "Acting for the Future of Creation", also published in 1998, by the above-mentioned commission. This results in the following goals:

  • Stimulating and accompanying initiatives to implement the text "Acting for the future of creation"
  • Promotion of the networking of church and non-church initiatives for sustainable development
  • Further development of Christian environmental ethics in an interdisciplinary and practice-oriented dialogue

To this end, the clearing house worked with ecclesiastical and non-ecclesiastical educational institutions, church associations, orders and multipliers for parishes, not least with decision-makers for ecological commitment in church, state, economy and society.

Her initiatives were in promoting the flow of information between all levels of church environmental engagement, in advising church and non-church expert bodies, as well as in scientific publications and teaching offers to deepen Christian-ecological ethics, education and pastoral care, in the development of practice-oriented working materials for church environmental education and pastoral care , in the implementation and participation in conferences on the tension between man-nature-technology, in dialogue with decision-makers in business, politics and society on Christian responsibility for creation, as well as in participation in exemplary projects for sustainable development in church and society.

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