{"id":146,"date":"2015-11-17T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/?p=146"},"modified":"2015-11-17T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:01:21","slug":"brother-benedict-ayodi-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/2015\/11\/17\/brother-benedict-ayodi-keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother Benedict Ayodi (Keynote Speaker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/Br-Benedict-Ayodi.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-130\" src=\"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/Br-Benedict-Ayodi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Br Benedict Ayodi\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/Br-Benedict-Ayodi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/Br-Benedict-Ayodi-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/Br-Benedict-Ayodi-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/10\/Br-Benedict-Ayodi.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Brother Benedict Ayodi<\/strong> OFM Cap is the Capuchin Franciscan General Curia secretary for Justice, Peace and Ecology. \u00a0Br. Ben had earlier worked in Kenya following the completion of his Master\u2019s in International Relations in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict is promotes \u00a0the spirit of St. Francis that we should be heralds of peace and salvation, not just proclaiming them by our words but spreading them by deeds inspired by fraternal charity. Like Pope Francis, Br. Benedict, has shown a great interest in justice, peace and ecological issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Br Benedict is a member of \u00a0the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) working group which has the Vision that &#8220;With their unparalleled presence throughout the world, the world\u2019s religious congregations could be the decisive force that helps tip the scales within the Catholic Church in favor of a world of climate safety and justice for future generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7\">The Purpose of the Integrity of Creation Working Group (ICWG) is to work to gather information, to increase awareness, to provide informed\u00a0reflections and to suggest actions concerning the environment.\u00a0Within the networking possibilities of the JPIC Promoters in Rome, the members provide formation resources, encourage religious congregations to be proclaimers of an ecological dimension to our faith, share contributions, and publicize initiatives that religious congregations are continuing to make for the care of creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Benedict Ayodi OFM Cap is the Capuchin Franciscan General Curia secretary for Justice, Peace and Ecology. \u00a0Br. Ben had earlier worked in Kenya following the completion of his Master\u2019s in International Relations in New York. Benedict is promotes \u00a0the spirit of St. Francis that we should be heralds of peace and salvation, not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keynotespeaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/cop21paris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}