St Ciaran of Ireland (516 AD – 544AD) was converted to the Christian faith by St Patrick and began to preach to the Irish people, who were then mostly pagans. One day, feeling the need for a period of quiet, Ciaran went to a lonely woodland district and started to
Saints who love Animals Feast Days St Ciaran-9th September
Creation Day is Tomorrow!
Tomorrow 1st Sept is Creation Day and people all over the world will be celebrating. CCA is excited about Creation day and on the Homepage of our website you will be able to watch a short video from Pope Francis and find a link to some Creation day prayers that
Long Distance Live Transport of Animals
CCA opposes the horrendous abuse of animals that takes place in the production of food for humans. We of course strongly promote a vegetarian or vegan diet and CCA wish we all lived in a world where animals were not eaten by humans at all. However,meat eating is not only
CCA Annual Retreat 2016
I am currently at the CCA Annual Retreat which this year is being held in the wonderful Quaker run and administered Charney Manor Conference & Retreat Centre in Oxfordshire. The Retreat is always a great Ecumenical event and this year is no different with colleagues and friends from differing
World Youth Day 2016-Pope Francis arrives
World Youth Day 2016 really took off today with the arrival of Pope Francis into Krakow. I spent the morning at the Laudato Si’ Eco-Village meeting young people from many countries and continents and explaining to them the message of Pope Francis in his Encyclical letter on the Environment in
WYD 2016-Laudato Si’ Eco-Village
The Laudato Si’ Ec0-Village was set up yesterday by members of the Global Catholic Climate Movement and officially opens today for visitors to WYD 2016 and other interested individuals. The Eco-village will explain to people the message from Pope Francis’ ground breaking Encyclical letter on the state of the environment
World Youth Day 2016-Krakow
I am planning to blog on CCA activities regularly at World Youth Day 2016 and other CCA activities whilst I am in Poland and I arrived late last night into Krakow after a very long journey following major flight delays at Gatwick which meant missed connections to Krakow.
World Youth Day 2016-Krakow, Poland
World Youth Day takes place this year in Krakow,Poland and CCA will be participating and attending as part of the delegation from the Catholic Climate Movement and will be highlighting Pope Francis’s fantastic Encyclical letter,Laudato Si as part of the CCA education campaign to demonstrate the support of the
Stop Yulin Dog Meat Festival Nowrescue
Catholic Concern for Animals utterly condemns the horrendous Yulin Dog Meat Festival which is due to take place next week in Yulin, China next week. CCA calls on all animal loving Catholics throughout the world to add their voices to the calls for this barbaric Festival to be cancelled
World Meat Free Day 2016
World Meat Free Day 2016 takes place on Monday 13th June and Catholic Concern for Animals gives it our full backing and ask all our members and supporters to do likewise and make World Meat Free Day truly that. Humans currently kill over 56 Billion animals a year for
