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A Grateful Farewell Message from the Steering Committee
May 30, 2025
This month marks the conclusion of Leah Reesor-Keller’s term of service with KAIROS as the Transitional Executive Director. Leah first joined KAIROS in September 2023 as the interim Executive Director and then took on an extended mandate as Transitional Executive…
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Seven tips for change makers: here’s what it actually takes to drive lasting impact
May 30, 2025
Dear KAIROS community,It’s been an honour to serve as Transitional Executive Director supporting the KAIROS movement through a time of organizational change and transformation from September 2023 through May 2025. Looking back over my term of service with KAIROS, here…
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Raising Hope: Laudato Si’ at 10 Years
May 30, 2025
Ecological justice is Indigenous justiceWhen we talk about justice for the Earth, we can’t leave Indigenous Peoples out of the conversation—because we’ve always been part of it.For generations, our families have protected the land, the waters, the animals—not out of…
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Laudato Si’ Anniversary Week – Voices from the Global South
May 29, 2025
As we mark the anniversary of Laudato Si’ this week, we have been reflecting on the Encyclical’s assertion that an ecological debt exists from rich to poor because of resource exploitation and environmental degradation. The Late Pope Francis helped to…
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A Call to Solidarity and Action on Climate Justice: Supporting Jubilee 2025
May 28, 2025
Rooted in Scripture and lived experience, this powerful message from Rev. Tut Kony Nyang Kon and the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) echoes the urgent appeal of Laudato Si’—to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the…
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Ten years after its release, Laudato Si’ continues to inspire and challenge us
May 27, 2025
In this reflection, Darlene O’Leary—Coordinator of the Martha Justice Ministry with the Sisters of St. Martha in Antigonish—explores the enduring wisdom and prophetic urgency of Pope Francis’ encyclical. She draws out its core message of integral ecology, showing how its…
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Laudato Si and the Ecumenical Movement for the Care of Creation
May 26, 2025
Written By: Mervin Sol H. Toquero, National Council of Churches in the Philippines Laudato Si’ and its urgent message for the care of creation should resonate well among Filipinos. Whenever we talk about the Philippine environment, we cannot help but be…
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One year later: Canadian churches call for action on Gaza
May 26, 2025
On the one-year anniversary of the Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage, a broad coalition of Canadian church leaders representing over four million people has written to Prime Minister Mark Carney. Their message is urgent and unified: Canada must act now to end…
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10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’
May 24, 2025
Today marks the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’, the Late Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Care for our Common Home. Listen to what Agnes Richard, the National Coordinator of Mouvement Laudato Si’ Movement – Canada, has to say on the Encyclical’s important…
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Remembering our Stolen Sisters, May 5
May 1, 2024
Time passes. Each second, tick, tick, tick.Time, a system of existence from the past, through the present and into the future.I will understand if you never forgive me. Forgive me for not being able to find you. One day you…
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KAIROS Canada calls on Manitoba to Search the Landfill for Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran
August 11, 2023
KAIROS Canada joins Indigenous peoples, the faith community, civil society and others in the call for the Manitoban government to ensure that the bodies of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran return to their loved ones. Morgan and Marcedes were murdered…
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They are on their way! Women of Courage partners to visit Canada this fall
August 9, 2023
“Supporting women in their empowerment initiatives: a matter for one and all.”Néné Lubala Neema, Héritiers de la Justice, the Democratic of the CongoThey help women victims of war and conflict empower themselves to become effective peacebuilders.They assist women impacted by…
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Congratulations to the OFP, KAIROS partner in Colombia, on their 50th Anniversary
July 21, 2022
Today, July 21 2022, the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP), a KAIROS Women, Peace and Security partner in Colombia, celebrates its 50th anniversary –50 years of working with communities and grassroots women in the Magdelana Medio region to build just, sustainable and…
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Migrant food providers thanked through gratitude dinners
December 22, 2021
As the end of the year draws near, organizations in Ontario held dinners to show support and gratitude to the temporary foreign workers who play a vital role during the harvest season.As the migrant workers prepared to head home after…
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A reflection on Decolonizing Ourselves: Land and the Spirit of Treaty
August 25, 2021
On Saturday, August 7, 2021, I had the privilege of joining approximately 60 others “on the land” at Fort Carlton, an hour or so north of Saskatoon. We were mostly settlers, interested in learning and thinking about land in new,…
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National feminist vigil in Colombia
May 31, 2021
“We cry out for a just and true peace, a peace that mobilizes us in love for other people and nature, a peace that guarantees respect for human rights, a peace that allows all Colombian families to store sufficient water…
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Become a corporate accountability advocate
May 28, 2021
On Wednesday, June 9th at 8:00pm EDT join a free virtual training to learn how you can support corporate accountability efforts in Canada. Register Now!For years, KAIROS members and networks along with other Canadian civil society actors have been active in…
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Oil drilling in the Kavango Basin
May 28, 2021
ReconAfrica (Reconnaissance Energy Africa), a Canadian company, has secured petroleum licenses for 3,542 hectares of land in Namibia and Botswana, upstream from the Okavango Delta, an area of rich and unique biodiversity that has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. This…
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Farewell from Lori Ransom
May 28, 2021
It has been a profound privilege to serve KAIROS in the role of Interim Executive Director for the first five months of 2021. Even before joining the staff, I understood the special place KAIROS occupies among organizations committed to social…
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Canadian organizations ask government to publicly condemn violence against Indigenous land defenders in Guatemala
April 9, 2021
Mining Watch CanadaOn March 30th, 2021, MiningWatch Canada, along with 26 other Canadian organizations, sent a letter to Marc Garneau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, asking them to make…
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Called to a Sacrificial Love
January 6, 2021
2 Kings 2:1-12; Psalm 50:1-6; 2 Corinthians 4:3-6; Mark 9:2-9Reflection by Leona LortieDuring the Season of Epiphany, we reflect on the appearance of Christ to the world. This time is intertwined with the incarnation, the profound event of God binding…
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A Ceremony of Gratitude
January 5, 2021
Is. 40: 21-31; Psalm 147: 1-11, 20c; I Cor. 9: 16-23; Mark 1: 29-39Reflection by Sister Mary-Ellen FrancoeurAfter reading the Scripture of this Sunday, what popped up for me was the Ceremony of Tobacco Offering described by Richard Wagamese in…
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Gratitude for the Fish and the Birds
January 5, 2021
Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalm 111; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Mark 1:21-28By Henriette Thompson“And God said, ‘Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.’ …’And God saw that it…
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Steadfast Love in a Time of Flux
January 4, 2021
Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Psalm 62:5-12; I Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20Reflection by Matthew DiegelEach of our readings speaks of uncertain times, times on the edge of change. Jonah enters the great city of Nineveh and begins to proclaim the divine warning…
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Spirited Reflection: Being known under the tree
December 23, 2020
1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20); Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; 1 Corinthians 6:12-20; John 1:43-51This cold and blustery January may seem far removed from lush and leafy summer gardens, but the fig tree mentioned in the gospel reading for this week has me…
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Spirited Reflection: The baptismal drive
December 23, 2020
Genesis 1:1-5; Psalm 29; Acts 19:1-7; Mark 1:4-11As a young adult, I became interested in alternatives to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Being someone interested in all kinds of things, it was not…
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Spirited Reflection: Glorious display
December 22, 2020
Version en françaisEpiphany has many subtle meanings in the original Greek. The one I like best for this year and these lectionary readings is ‘glorious display’, and what a display of glory is offered to us! We need to begin…
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