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Conference
A Living Chapel in Milan, Italy
28 September 2021
Milan, Italy
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On September 28, 2021 at 3:00 pm CEST at the Youth4Climate & Pre-COP26 Press Area The Living Chapel Project will unveil the new Living Chapel at a press conference featuring our partners.
The Living Chapel at Calderini Garden is a program shared with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and All4Climate to mark Pre-COP26, a key time to remind leaders to take action.
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The Living Chapel, conceived by musical composer Julian Revie, is a garden that induces spiritual reflection on the intimate need for harmonious connection between humanity and nature and a program of action, supported and shared by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The project is an architectural landscape installation - a place of inspiration for action to combat the climate crisis, and a symbol of interreligious dialogue for the common goal of caring for our planet.
Once beyond the entrance, follow the path of radial symmetry of the circles, drawing a path that underlies the urgency of an "ecological conversion".
This space, a discursive symbol of the encounter between the different religious viewpoints on the globe, embodies in its essence the peaceful logic of interreligious dialogue, a natural impulse aimed at "taking care of our common home" leading to spiritual reflection and the intimate need for a harmonious connection between humanity and nature.
Dr. Iyad Abumoghli, Director of UNEP Faith for Earth is pleased to share the following statement:
I am truly honored and delighted to continue our partnership with the Living Chapel and I keep being amazed by the beauty being created. It is not only an aesthetic beauty, but also a beauty for the sole, a beauty of interfaith collaboration and a beauty of giving hope amidst the climate crisis.
The Living Chapel, conceived by musical composer Julian Revie, is becoming a symbol of faith action of the people who care for the planet. The Living Chapel in Milan is yet another example of UNEP’s Faith for Earth principles of the Living Houses of Worship and is a marvelous contribution to the role of faith in achieving the goals of the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and the sustainable development goals.
The Living Chapel is a clear demonstration of the Integral Ecology concept of Laudato Si launched by His Holiness Pope Francis. It indeed responds to what Pope Francis said: “Restoring the nature we have damaged is restoring ourselves”.
