A cEach year, the bishops of the Episcopal Pastoral Council (CONSEP) of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), welcoming suggestions from... rregional, dos organisms of the People of God, of orders and congregations religious and of the faithful laymen and laywomen, They choose a theme and a motto for the Fraternity Campaign, with the aim of drawing attention to a situation in society that requires conversion., in view dfor the good of all.

In 2025, motivated by the 800th anniversary of the composition of the Canticle of the Creatures by Saint Francis of Assisi; and by the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si'’; due to the recent publication of the Apostolic Exhortation Laudate God; for the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Ecclesial Network Pan-Amazonian (REPAM) and for the holding of COP 30, in Belém (PA), the first in the Amazon, accepting the suggestion of the Special Episcopal Commission for Mining and Integral Ecology, the theme was chosen: Fraternity and Integral Ecology and the motto: “"God saw that everything was very good."” (Gn 1,31).

Ecology is the issue most frequently addressed by the CFs throughout their 61 years of existence. Eight CFs have addressed this theme in some way:

in the 1979 Constitution, For a more humane world: Preserve what belongs to everyone.”; 

in the 1986 Constitution, Fraternity and the Earth: God's Earth, land of brothers; 

in the CF 2002, Fraternity and Indigenous Peoples: Towards a Land Without Evil; 

in the CF 2004, Fraternity and water: Water, source of life; 

in the CF 2007, Fraternity and the Amazon: life and mission on this land; 

in the CF 2011, Fraternity and Life on the Planet: "Creation groans in labor pains" (Romans 8:22); 

in the CF 2016, Our common home, our responsibility: “Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:17) and 

in the CF 2017, Fraternity: Brazilian Biomes and the defense of life: "To cultivate and keep Creation" (Genesis 2:15). 

Therefore, this year, the Fraternity Campaign once again addresses the environmental theme, with the objective of "promoting, in the Lenten spirit and in times of urgent socio-environmental crisis, a process of integral conversion, listening to the cry of the poor and of the Earth" (General Objective of CF 2025). 

“We are in the decisive decade for the planet! Either we change, we convert, or we will provoke a planetary collapse with our individual and collective attitudes. We are already experiencing its harbinger in the great catastrophes that are afflicting our country. And there is no reserve planet! We only have this one! And, although it can live without us, we cannot live without it. There is still time, but the time is now! Urgent ecological conversion is needed: to move from the extractive logic, which views the Earth as an endless reservoir of resources, from which we can take everything we want, however we want, and as much as we want, to a logic of care.”.

Ecology reappears in the set of CFs (Fraternity Campaigns) in a new way, as Integral Ecology, a concept so dear to Pope Francis and so important in his project of a New Integral and Solidarity Humanism, for which the following are fundamental: Social Friendship, addressed in CF 2024; Education, addressed in CF 2022 and in the Global Educational Pact; Dialogue, addressed in CF 2021; and Mercy or Compassion, addressed in CF 2020.

Source: CNBB