Pope Leo has issued a direct message to world leaders gathering at COP30, the UN climate summit that begins in Brazil today.

With groups and country representatives gathering from all over the world at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, find out what is happening at the climate summit so far.

On the World Day of the Poor, we reflect on Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation Dilexi te, which focuses on the preferential option for the poor.

The cuts from key governments and philanthropic organisations, alongside rising anti-aid sentiment and shrinking spaces to ...

Priest: The United Nations climate conference, COP30, begins tomorrow. Let us bring our prayers to God, who created the earth and all within it. We pray for the Church: may we speak and act together ...

Between March 2023 and March 2025 CAFOD supported five civil society organisations in four countries (Colombia, occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan and Sri Lanka) to collaboratively implement ...

CAFOD has supported communities in LAC since the 1960s, maintaining deep ties with grassroots, civil society and Church actors. We work in Andes (Bolivia, Colombia and Peru), Brazil, Central America ...

What is COP30? What does COP30 mean? COP30 is the 30th Conference of the Parties meeting. This is the UN’s annual climate change summit, hosting all the ‘parties’ (meaning the countries who are ‘party ...

From the heart of the Amazon, the UN climate negotiations happening now in Brazil, COP30, is one of the most critical climate summits in years. Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, nations must ...