“Land is Our Life”: Laudato Si’ in Action in Papua New Guinea

Philip Gibbs and Matthias Lopa
In Religion, Culture, and Ecological Flourishing in Asian Contexts. Edited by Anthony Le Duc. Bangkok: ARC, 2025

pp. 126–137

DOI: 10.62461/PGML110125

This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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