Christian Climate Action

A reminder that our Stop Crucifying Creation Prayer Vigils at General Synod start tomorrow.

• Monday 9th Feb, 10am-4.30pm
• Wednesday 11th Feb, noon-2pm
• Friday 13th Feb, 8am-10am

Outside Church House, Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3NZ

#StopCrucifyingCreation

Last week saw a government report that the adverse impacts of the climate crisis on countries across the globe increases the threat to UK and world security. Yet by cutting support to vulnerable nations climate impacts and the threat to security is being ratcheted up.

Also, children will die.

So @thelabourparty are you going to keep your promise? Our future depends upon it.

Great video! We need church leadership and action in the face of climate and ecological breakdown.

Play your part by calling on the General Synod members representing the diocese you live in to add their name in support of the GS motion.
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We are going to be reminding the Church of England of its calling to be a prophetic voice in service to God’s Creation. Come and pray with us.

Outside Church House, Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3NZ

Monday 9th Feb, 10am-4.30pm
Wednesday 11th Feb, noon-2pm
Friday 13th Feb, 8am-10am

Another report that hasn’t got the attention it should is Christian Aid’s Counting the Cost 2025 which underscores the escalating cost of climate change

www.christianaid.org.uk/sites/defaul...

It’s time to speak out
It’s time to take action

#ClimateJustice
#ActNow
#StopCrucifyingCreation

This report sets out the stark consequences of the climate and nature crisis. Read it, write to your church leaders, politicians, and business leaders, demanding meaningful climate action. Then join us on the streets to say, stop destroying Creation.

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Our banner appeared as the incoming Archbishop and her bishops came out of the Cathedral. We saw Archbishop Sarah and she saw us and our invitation to the Church of England to find the courage to speak up about the climate emergency and to call people to Stop Crucifying Creation.

In case you missed this invitation.
We have an online meeting about our Stop Crucifying Creation campaign tomorrow - Wednesday. Come along if you are involved in the Church of England at any level.

We are hugely inspired by this act of love. Our faith calls us to put ourselves on the line against oppression and injustice.

This is what faith leadership looks like.

Online meeting Wednesday 28th January at 6:30pm for people within the Church of England who are interested in our Stop Crucifying Creation vision. Join us to ask questions, hear how you can get involved, and share your thoughts on promoting the vision.

Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Every Wednesday, whether it’s raining or not, we are outside Parliament, because like the persistent widow we will not stop demanding justice.

#stoprosebank
#climatejustice
#persistentprayer

Love is caring about billions that a new UN report says are being affected by irreversible losses of natural water sources. It’s a justice issue - the burdens fall on the already poor and the benefits of overuse accrue to more powerful actors.

Love means taking action to #StopCrucifyingCreation

Yesterday the Stop Crucifying Creation four had their trial date set for 16 & 17 July. Three of them were at court in person, meanwhile out London group were praying for the Spirit to give them words to move the court to understand the urgency of the climate crisis that motivated their action.

Over the last few years CCA has been taking part in the Religion, Theology and Climate Change project, hosted at University of Manchester and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. One of the sentences in their report stayed with us

* We added the all-important “Together

Back in action, CCA Oxford joined Extinction Rebellion on Friday outside the Oxford Farming Conference. They held a Vigil for Lost Species to highlight the need for responsible farming.

Reminding the agricultural sector that they have a big part to play in addressing our climate and nature crisis.

To round off our look at 2025, we celebrate our local groups, who hold regular weekly and monthly vigils throughout the year, prayerfully calling for just and urgent action on the climate crisis. You are warmly welcome to join them. Find out when and where at christianclimateaction.org/events/

2025 review almost done

#COP30 vigils and protests in support of environmental defenders across the world, including here in UK, where Quaker Marcus Decker faced deportation despite having served his sentence for climate protest. Because in the fight for #climatejustice we are a global family.

30 people prayed outside court, while inside four CCA people pleaded not guilty to aggravated trespass for the September DON’T CRUCIFY CREATION banner drop from the tower of Bath Abbey. ‘The Church is failing to tell the truth about climate breakdown and its impact on all of us’ said Rev Bill White.

Our next look back at 2025 -
In October we worked with Wild Card to highlight the need for the Church of England to rewild 30% of its institutionally owned land to play its part in helping reverse the disastrous decline of nature in this country. This is one of our Stop Crucifying Creation demands.

Last September, four CCA people dropped a banner from the tower of Bath Abbey as part of the launch of our Stop Crucifying Creation campaign.

They will be in court on 7th Jan on charges of aggravated trespass. Please pray for them.
Join our vigil at Bath Magistrates Court on Wednesday at 9.30am.

Looking back to warmer days. Many of us were at the Greenbelt Festival at the end of August, so we took the opportunity to remind festival goers that Barclays funds the causes of climate disasters. We hope everyone at every level takes action to bank better.

Pray with us for 2026 in words from Joan Chittister’s Prayer for Conscience and Courage

Lead us beyond fear, apathy and defensiveness to new hope in You and to hearts full of faith.
Give us the conscience it takes
to comprehend what we’re facing,
to see what we’re looking at
and to say what we see

We coordinated a letter to the government from 18 organisations, representing over 250,000 Christians, asking for #climate leadership promised in the #Labour manifesto. Still awaiting the decision on Rosebank, but it seems that the government doesn’t get how important protecting our nature is too.

In June 2025 we dropped a surprise banner at the Church of England Commissioners AGM to urge them institutionally (and individually) to bank with an ethical bank. A new report had just come out showing that the world’s largest banks had pledged $869bn to fossil fuel companies in the previous year.

May is AGM season, and we always pray and protest outside many of them. In 2025 we joined the Laudato Si’ Movement outside HSBC's AGM to protest their funding the destruction of one of the world's most biodiverse marine habitats.

We are back with our review of 2025.
Throughout the spring we visited cathedrals across the country, holding banners asking them to switch to a bank that doesn’t fund climate chaos. In April we took our banners to St Paul’s Cathedral on a day when clergy from across the diocese were gathered.

Wishing you a blessed Christmas

This Christmas Eve, take five minutes away from all the busyness to read the fourth and last of our Advent reflections.
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