Stories about environmental issues within the Diocese of East Anglia

October 16, 2022

Funds plea for Diocese eco-research with UEA

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the Diocese of East Anglia to work with the University of East Anglia to help determine the carbon output of […]
October 4, 2022

Diocese moves forward with eco projects and policy

The Diocese of East Anglia Environmental Group is pushing ahead with projects responding to Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, to care for and protect our […]
July 27, 2022

Ipswich school is first in East Anglia to get eco award

Pupils and staff from St Alban’s Catholic High School in Ipswich have become the first school in East Anglia to achieve a LiveSimply Award after taking […]
June 6, 2022

Ukraine knitters, Cambridge chaplain, green schools

Latest news from the Diocese of East Anglia includes bootees and mittens for Ukraine, a new chaplain at Fisher House and energy-saving plans for diocesan schools. […]
March 2, 2022

Anita and Clara’s challenge for a plastic-free Lent

Challenged by her daughter to go plastic free for Lent last year, Bury St Edmunds parishioner Anita Fildes rose to the challenge, as she explains. When […]
January 7, 2022

Diocese environmental group is launched

The Diocese of East Anglia’s response to the environmental crisis stepped up a gear recently with the establishment of a small group tasked with addressing this […]
January 4, 2022

Plan to install electric car charging points at churches

The newly-formed Diocese of East Anglia Environment Group is taking part in a national project to identify sites and install electric vehicle charging points at locations […]
November 10, 2021

A Catholic guide to our shared climate challenges

With all eyes on the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow a website has been launched to help Catholics find information on environmental issues that are informed […]
October 19, 2021

Clive Lewis MP tackles climate at St John’s Cathedral

Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South, visited St John’s Cathedral for a discussion on climate change, COP26 and debt. Joseph Savage reports. The meeting, which […]
October 8, 2021

Bishop of Norwich gives Norfolk honey to Pope

Pope Francis has been presented with a jar of honey and a bee facemask from Norfolk by the Anglican Bishop of Norwich, who met him at […]
September 13, 2021

CAFOD walkers celebrate Climate Sunday at Blickling

Parishioners from North Walsham, Aylsham and Hoveton celebrated Climate Sunday with a beautiful walk on the Blickling estate. Jane Crone from CAFOD reports. The ecumenical Climate […]
September 2, 2021

CAFOD invites you to celebrate the Season of Creation

The annual ecumenical Season of Creation started on September 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, and ends on October 4, the […]
August 23, 2021

Suffolk parish becomes 100th eco award recipient

The Parish of Bungay has become the 100th recipient of the livesimply eco award for the commitment of a group of volunteers to living sustainably to […]
July 16, 2021

CAFOD volunteers put the world’s eyes on G7 summit

Joe Savage, a student volunteering with CAFOD in East Anglia, joined its youth delegation to the G7 conference in Cornwall. Here is his report. Along with […]
June 10, 2021

Our future must be sustainable bishops tell G7

Ahead of the G7 group of nations summit taking place in Carbis Bay, Cornwall from 11-13 June, bishops representing the Catholic communities of England, Wales and […]