All posts from Gabriel Lamug-Nañawa SJ

EcoSummit 2025: A gathering of Jesuit schools of the Philippines
From 3 to 6 February, representatives from the 11 Jesuit schools in the Philippines gathered at the Cebu Center for Ignatian Spirituality for EcoSummit 2025....read more

The first eco-summit of Jesuit high schools in the Philippines
In the last week of May, twenty delegates gathered on the Jacinto campus of Ateneo de Davao University for the first eco-summit of Jesuit high...read more

The growth of Paglaum: Creators of Hope 2022 grantee
Javie Barcinal was only 18 years old in 2019, when he and some friends came together and formed what is now called the “Dulungan Youth”...read more

Creator of Hope: Akhfaa Nazhat Al Wafaa
As we walked on the muddy footpath between the green rice paddies under a slight drizzle, the mesmerising sound of the adhan echoed above the...read more

The path of ecological conversion
These past few weeks, the necessity for urgent action in responding to the climate crisis has become even more compelling. As the United Nations Environment...read more

Voice of creation, voices of hope
On 4 October, the Season of Creation officially came to a close on the feast of St Francis of Assisi. This was the eighth year...read more

Urban ecology: Why the world can do without leaf blowers
For the past 17 years, I have been part of the Jesuit Mission in Cambodia. A significant part of that time has been with local...read more

Strengthening our network in social justice and ecology
The Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES) held its annual meeting from 10-14 May at the Jesuit Curia in Rome. After some years of meeting...read more

Laudato si’ in 2020: A call for courageous leaders
Five years after the promulgation of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’: On Care for Our Common Home, we revisit the document in the midst of...read more

Wellsprings of encounter: A reflection on the UAPs
A few weeks ago, Fr Tony Moreno SJ was in Cambodia for two days to speak to us about the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) of...read more

Gabriel Lamug-Nañawa SJ
Fr Gabriel Lamug-Nañawa SJ, from the Philippines, is the coordinator of the Reconciliation with Creation network of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific.
He is also the Philippine Province Assistant for Ecological Justice. He was a missionary in Cambodia for 17 years, working with persons with disabilities and together starting the Ecology Program of Jesuit Service Cambodia, where he served as Country Coordinator before being assigned back to the Philippines.