The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development and the FELM Center Jerusalem invite you to an Interfaith Ecology Summit in Jerusalem on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 from 10 am to 1:45 pm.
The event will be hosted by the FELM Center Jerusalem at Shivtei Yisrael St. #25. Speakers and group facilitators will engage participants in exploring how the leadership and members of religious communities can contribute to faith-based environmental sustainability. The Summit will feature:
- An interfaith panel of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious leaders on the religious basis for climate action;
- A breakout workshop on practical faith-based eco action, including green pilgrimage to Jerusalem;
- Catered vegetarian lunch;
- A faith-based ecological walk in Jerusalem will be offered as an optional program following the main event.
The Summit is being offered free of charge.
Register for the Summit by clicking here.
Goals of the Summit
- Encourage Jerusalem religious institutions to integrate eco theology into their teaching;
- Promote greening and renewable energy use in Jerusalem religious institutions.
- Convey a spiritual message from Jerusalem to world political leaders about the urgency of ecological action.
- Empower clergy and seminarians to be ecological champions
Schedule
- 10:00 am Registration and refreshments
- 10:30 Introduction by representatives of the sponsoring organizations
- 10:40 Plenary Session: Mobilizing Religion Ecological Action
- A moderated panel featuring religious figures from Jerusalem
- 11:40 Break and refreshments
- 12:00 Breakout Workshops
- a. Eco preaching: How to teach and preach on ecology from the pulpit at least once a month
- b. Religious Seminaries—how to increase the emphasis on teaching of faith and ecology?
- c. Green Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
- 12:50 pm Vegetarian Lunch, with Kosher options
- 1:20 pm Closing Session
- 1:45 pm to 3 pm Optional Faith-based ecological walk in Jerusalem
Register for the Summit by clicking here.
