Abstract

Should we want to consider the actual relevance and significance of the eco-interreligious civilization of love, we can discuss this idea in the current difficult times in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The world was shocked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which made people of all nations experience changes in life spiritually, physically, and socially. In the perspective of Laudato Si’ encyclical, the COVID-19 pandemic challenges all people without discrimination to bring about ecological conversion and a culture of love, even eco-interreligious civilization of love. This paper aims to explain the idea of eco-interreligious love civilization as the fruit of ecological conversion amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative reflection uses the encyclical Laudato Si’ as a theoretical foundation to examine the importance of interfaith civilization of love in the context of the Indonesian Catholic Church, primarily based on the response of two Archbishop of Jakarta Archdiocese and Semarang Archdiocese. The COVID-19 pandemic was a natural reaction to the error of the human collective towards nature. In the language of faith, the plague is partly caused by ecological sin that needs ecological conversion to conduct an eco-interreligious civilization of love.