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How all religious faiths advocate for environmental protection

June 7, 2019
United Nations Environment

Science and religion are often thought of as being at odds on many issues.  On the question of the environment, however, there’s widespread agreement.

From Buddhism to Christianity to Hinduism to Islam, various faiths acknowledge the need for environmental stewardship and their holy texts urge adherents to be caretakers of the Earth...

What Conservation Efforts Can Learn from Indigenous Communities

May 29, 2019
By Annie Sneed
Scientific American

A major U.N.-backed report says that nature on indigenous peoples’ lands is degrading less quickly than in other areas

Pope Francis on climate change: Time is of the essence

Pope Francis tells finance ministers they have “the responsibility of working to achieve the goals that your governments have adopted” to combat climate change.

Vatican News
May 28, 2019

At a discussion on the Sustainable Development Goals, organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis described climate change as “an issue of great importance for...

Song of Water

May 27, 2019
By James McGowan
The Dark Mountain Project

Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Jewish environmental activist, dies at 65

Born in Toronto, Troster, who described himself as an “eco-theologian,” spent summers growing up in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, where long canoe trips helped instill his love of nature.

By Josefin Dolsten
Jerusalem Post
May 25, 2019

Rabbi Lawrence Troster, a leading Jewish environmental activist, has died.

Cardinal Turkson on Fourth Anniversary of Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato si'

May 24, 2019
ZENIT

Profound Concerns of Many Scientists and Experts

The following is the Message of the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, to the scientific community on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis’ Encyclical ...

Laudato Si' Generation rallies Catholic youth for climate strikes

May 24, 2019
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

This article appears in the Our Common Home feature series. View the full series.

Hundreds of thousands of youth and...

Europe's first eco-mosque invokes God to fight climate change

May 22, 2019
By Adela Suliman
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Located in the world-famous British university city, the mosque opened its doors just in time for the fasting month of Ramadan and is adorned with wooden columns and solar panels

LONDON, May 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Europe’s first green mosque is hoping to harness the power of Islam to tackle...

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope's 2015 encyclical

May 21, 2019
By John Cannon
Mongabay

Conservationists at Vatican conference call for protecting biodiversity

May 17, 2019
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Vatican City — People’s attitudes toward nature as well as their economic systems and consumption habits need to radically change in order to protect biodiversity on the planet and promote a more sustainable and caring world, said participants at a Vatican-sponsored conference.

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