Looking back on the last few months of 2015 and some of the events that make me feel positive about the future
18th June Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ – Care of our common home, emphasises the connection between environmental degradation and poverty, between the love for creation and poverty reduction and the interconnection between human dignity, human development and human ecology.
http://www.cafod.org.uk/…/UK-…/pope-francis-first-encyclical
Ist July The U.S. and Cuba have reached an agreement to restore diplomatic relations and reopen embassies in each other’s capitals, a senior administration official said Tuesday, the biggest step yet toward ending a half century of enmity between the two countries.
9th September I give Pope Francis signed copy of my book Pope of Good Promise during papal audience in St Peter’s Square.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oK2PQJNHg8
12th October Film ‘Sufragette’ released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HdQ0iVrl2Y
23rd October Adele releases Hello
http://www.theguardian.com/…/…/adele-hello-new-song-25-video
30th November Pope Francis says Christians and Muslims should turn their back on revenge and hatred and tells worshippers in a mosque in the Central African Republic that “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-34960971
13th December A deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C is agreed at the climate change summit in Paris.The pact is the first to commit all countries to cut carbon emissions. Key blocs, including the G77 group of developing countries, and nations such as China and India said they supported the proposals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35084374
December 15 Britain’s Major Tim Peake joins Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Tim Kopra as they blast off to space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan .
http://www.independent.co.uk/…/tim-peake-british-astronaut-…
December 18th A resolution, passed unanimously by the UN Security Council, sets out a timetable for formal talks and a unity government in Syria within six months.
