As part of the series of celebrations organized by the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), in partnership with the “Danmission” organization, in various countries of the region, marking the “Season of Creation” 2022, the MECC and the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East/ Diocese of Jerusalem, held the “Season of Creation” Prayer service in Jordan under the title of “I have heard them crying out… I am concerned about their suffering… So now, go. I am sending you… I will be with you” (EX 3: 1-12),.

The prayer was held  on Monday October  26, 2022 at the Redeemer Church for the Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church in Jabal Amman, Amman. In  attendance were clergymen, public figures, as well as people concerned with environmental affairs.

The Season of Creation is a month that brings together people from different Churches to attend to the environment. It invites us to listen to the cry of the environment and to reflect on what we must do as individuals, as citizens, workplaces, nations and as the world to address the urgent threat of global warming.

Care for the environment will embrace all our relationships, ranging from those with the air we breathe, the food we eat, the things we buy, the way we travel, dress, speak, listen and work, to our relationships with ourselves, with family, friends, hospitals, people who are homeless and excluded, schools, workplaces, banks, politics and with our world. Care for the environment is not one single aspect of our lives as it embraces all aspects of our lives.

This vision of a world in which all is connected has been the distinctive gift of Pope Francis. In his Encyclical Laudato Si’, he insisted that action to protect the environment and to address climate change is as much an issue of justice as are actions to provide shelter and food for the poor. The effects of neglecting and exploiting the environment fall heaviest on the poor which also threaten the future of the planet and betray the trust by which we hold our world for our children and grandchildren.

Pope Francis offers a vision of an interrelated world in which what we do well or badly in one of our relationships will affect all our other relationships. Our environment is not part of the world; it is our whole and only world. If we exploit and pollute the natural world.