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Pipeline struggle reveals value of community to religious congregation

February 20, 2019
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service
Global Sisters Report

For the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the order’s religious freedom claims in a legal challenge to a natural gas pipeline through their land in Pennsylvania came as no real surprise.

“But we needed to see it through and that’s what we did,”...

Panama: Catholic sister considers dam a violation of indigenous people's right to religion

February 18, 2019
By Tracy L. Barnett
Global Sisters Report

A set of mysterious petroglyphs lie at the heart of the indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé religion and written language — and those petroglyphs now lie at the bottom of a stagnant, foul-smelling reservoir.

Indigenous groups unite in call for Murray-Darling royal commission

February 13, 2019
By Peter Hannam
Sydney Morning Herald

Only a federal royal commission with “real teeth” can uncover the corruption and mismanagement that is killing the nation’s biggest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, leading Indigenous groups say.

The demand was a centrepiece of issues raised by hundreds of water activists who gathered in Canberra on...

Indigenous researchers plant seeds of hope for health and climate

February 12, 2019
By Kim Anderson
The Conversation

As we learn more about climate change, this knowledge can be paralyzing, especially for young people who are contemplating life pathways.

Meeting people's need for clean water changes sisters' lives, too

February 11, 2019
By Dan Stockman
Global Sisters Report

Praised be You my Lord through Sister Water,
So useful, humble, precious and pure
—St. Francis of Assisi, “Canticle of Brother Sun and Sister Moon”

Indigenous Brazilians and Environmental Protection

February 7, 2019
By Suzanne Oakdale
Yale Global

The White Earth band of Ojibwe legally recognized the rights of wild rice. Here's why

February 4, 2019
By Winona LaDuke
Nation of Change

“Manoomin, or wild rice, within all the Chippewa ceded territories, possesses inherent rights to exist, flourish, regenerate, and evolve, as well as inherent rights to restoration, recovery, and preservation.”

Carbon Dividend Act gets support from head of bishops' justice office

January 29, 2019
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

A bipartisan bill aiming to place a price on carbon emissions represents “a hopeful sign” that legislators are taking climate change seriously, said the head of the U.S. bishops’ domestic justice office.

"Engendering Nature" - Special Issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture

Using Art to Explore Indigenous Rights, Activism and Environment

January 24, 2019
By Dorothy Woodend
The Tyee

Sprawling UBC exhibition is powerful, diverse and compelling

“A sharing economy loses out to a taking economy because, when the takers have done their thing, there is not much left to share.” — George Manuel, The Fourth World: An Indian Reality

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