“We have to move now”: Islanders watch as their home disappears in the sea

April 20, 2016
By Mark Bowling
The Catholic Leader

ALMOST 6000 islanders to Australia’s north face forced evacuation as they watch their low-lying Pacific homelands disappear under rising seas.

Their plight amounts to just a drop in the ocean, and yet these island people take solace from Pope Francis’ call for action on climate change and the environment, and for the dignity of displaced persons.