Interfaith Oceans--
protecting systems and species,
peoples and cultures,
through faith and community.

 Read our Mission and Become Involved!  Follow the inspiring and challenging news on our Interfaith Oceans facebook page and on Twitter. Also please share us with your family, friends, and communities of faith...and check out our blog too.

This multi-faith campaign encourages religious and spiritual communities to delight in the wonder of God's oceans but also become aware of the ongoing damage to marine life, ocean systems, and coastal communities -- and get to work to protect and restore them in the name of God's Creation, the poor, our children, our brother and sister species, and future generations.

We are nonprofit program through the World Stewardship Institute and the National Religious Coalition on Creation Care. We have many faith partners and working relationships with ocean-oriented conservation organizations, such as the Ocean Conservancy and The Ocean Project, and science-based governmental agencies, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Catholic Climate Covenant sponsored a webinar onC "Climate Change Canaries: Oceans and Vulnerable Populations" that is incredible. Check it out!

Action Calendar
Join the Campaign
for the Atlantic National Marine Monument

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See what Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew say about protecting the oceans!

* Learn  "How Whales Change Climate," and start a great discussion on the interconnectivity of creation!

Get children out to the sea with the Kid in a Park free pass for fourth-graders to NOAA reserves and sanctuaries and other public lands.

International Business News writes about the many ocean perils and
12 reasons why we need To care in the UK Telegraph. 

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The ocean is the heart of the planet. Get your faith community enthused about and involved in restoring the Divinely given ocean systems, species, and coastal communities. Join the Wave for Change. For Youtube films for group discussions, go to our resources page. 

Senator Kerry issued a statement for World Oceans Day. He announced "Our Ocean, The Future" Conference in September 14-16. 

The UN Passes Sustainable Goal for the Oceans!

 Visit the UN website description of the goals.  There are some vivid Life Below Water posters to go with the goals as well.

 Click here for actions you and your faith community can do. We also have Awareness Resources for getting your community of faith and hope active. Find out about campaigns of  action and hope
you can join with others of faith. Here are tips on engaging your faith-based  community in ocean conservation.

So what we do to the oceans, God’s vast blue Creation, we do to God’s other creations, including ourselves. . . .

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, June 7, 2003