For the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA), the year 2025 has been a time of grace, discernment, and deep commitment to the Amazonian peoples and to the care of our Common Home. In the context of the Jubilee of Hope, this year was experienced as a true kairos: an opportune time to give thanks for the journey traveled, to listen to the cries of the Amazon, and to renew the hope that becomes action.
Walking together: a Church with an Amazonian face
Throughout 2025, CEAMA continued to consolidate itself as an expression of a synodal Church, reaching out and incarnated in the territories. The Meeting of Bishops of the Amazon was a fundamental milestone in this journey together, allowing for a deepening of episcopal communion, sharing of common pastoral challenges, and reaffirmation of the commitment to a Church that is close, prophetic, and missionary.
This meeting strengthened the conviction that the Amazon is not only a territory to be accompanied, but a living ecclesial subject, whose voice guides pastoral choices and mission priorities.
Closeness to local Churches: accompanying, listening, and serving
One of the most significant features of the year was CEAMA’s constant closeness to the local Churches of the Amazon. Through visits, meetings, formation processes, and spaces for dialogue, the pastoral life of dioceses, vicariates, prelatures, and communities was accompanied, recognizing their pains, hopes, and resistance.
This accompaniment reaffirms an ecclesiology of closeness, where CEAMA understands itself not as a distant structure, but as a space for service, articulation, and listening to the rhythm of the territories.
Listening to discern: synodal pastoral horizons
During 2025, the process of listening towards the construction of synodal pastoral horizons was strongly promoted, in line with the path of the universal Church and the Amazonian synodal process. Listening to communities, pastoral agents, indigenous peoples, women, young people, and defenders of the territory became a cross-cutting theme.
This process made it possible to gather cries, dreams, and proposals, recognizing that pastoral discernment is born from deep listening to the Spirit who speaks through the people.
Dialogue with the universal Church: meeting with the Pope and the dicasteries
A moment of special relevance was the visit to Pope Leo XIV and the dialogue held with various dicasteries of the Holy See. These meetings strengthened communion with the universal Church and allowed for the sharing of the specific challenges of the Amazon, as well as the pastoral and ecclesial searches that are taking shape in the territory.
The attentive listening and support received reaffirmed the value of the Amazonian journey as a prophetic contribution to the whole Church.
Prophetic presence in global spaces: COP30
In the context of COP30, CEAMA raised the voice of the Amazon in international spaces, reaffirming that the climate crisis is also an ethical, social, and spiritual crisis. Participation and coordination around COP30 expressed the commitment of the Amazonian Church to socio-environmental justice, the defense of peoples, and the integral care of our Common Home.
From this prophetic presence, CEAMA insisted that there are no real solutions without the participation of the Amazonian peoples or without a profound change in the models of development that threaten life.
Spirituality, formation, and communication at the service of the mission
The year 2025 was also marked by the strengthening of the processes of spirituality, formation, and communication, understood as pillars of a transformative mission. Inspired by the teachings of Pope Francis and by a deeply incarnate spirituality, these spaces helped to integrate faith, life, and socio-environmental commitment.
Communication was experienced as an essential dimension of the mission: narrating life, making resistance visible, and proclaiming the hope that springs from the Amazon.
Hope that becomes action
In all these milestones and processes, CEAMA reaffirmed that Christian hope is not passive, but active, incarnate, and committed. It is a hope that is expressed in listening, accompaniment, public advocacy, and the building of alliances with those who defend life.
Looking ahead
For CEAMA, closing the year 2025 is an act of profound gratitude and renewed responsibility. Gratitude for the journey traveled and for the people and communities that sustain this ecclesial process. Responsibility to continue walking together, with evangelical boldness, toward a living, just, and hopeful Amazon.
Confident that the Spirit continues to blow from the Amazon, CEAMA renews its commitment to care for, defend, and love this sacred land and the peoples who inhabit it.