Sacred Season of Climate Justice: Launch Call

Between March 19 and May 6, 2022, there are five major sacred days or seasons, an Equinox, and Earth Day. Together, these days collectively attract billions of people of diverse faiths and none to worship, pray, listen to sermons, reflect, and commit to act on what matters most.

• March 19 – 1.3 billion Hindus and 30 million Sikhs celebrate Holi, which affirms the triumph of love and good over evil.
• March 20 – the sun passes the celestial equator, one of two Equinoxes of the year, affirmed by pagans and other people of spirit and earth around the world.
• April 1-30 – 1.8 billion Muslims observe Ramadan, their holiest month of the year, which marks the arrival of the Qur’an.
• April 10-17 – 2 billion Christians celebrate Holy Week and Easter, marking Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection and the victory of life over death. A week later, 260 million Orthodox Christians celebrate their holy week.
• April 15-23 – 15 million Jews observe Passover, the festival of Jewish liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt
• April 22 – Earth Day engages over 1 billion people each year, the world’s largest environmental observance.
• May 6 – 535 million Buddhists observe Vesak – the birth of the Buddha

Join our launch call!
Monday, February 7, 2022 English with Spanish interpretation
10am ET / 6pm Nairobi / 10 pm Jakarta

If religious groups were to offer an impassioned call for an end to new fossil fuel projects and a just transition for all – across these major religious holidays, when they collectively attract massive numbers of worshippers, followers and adherents – it would attract media coverage, help shift cultural narratives on climate change, provide a boost to the climate justice movement, surface new allies from diverse faiths and geographies, and help take religious engagement on climate to a new level by grounding people of faith and spirit around the world in the theological and spiritual teachings that drive them.

So that’s what we’re going to do: People of faith will devote a sermon/spoken teaching or a public ritual/service during their sacred season to call for climate justice– rooted in eco-theologies and eco-spiritualities and then tell the world about it.