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First-Ever Indigenous Peoples March Will Fight Against Injustices Faced Across the Globe

January 9, 2019
By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams

“Many Indigenous people are victims of voter suppression, divided families by walls and borders, an environmental holocaust, sex and human trafficking, and police/military brutality.”

Raising alarm about human rights violations and the global climate crisis, activists from around the world are traveling to...

Indonesian archbishop urges Catholics to ditch use of plastic bags

January 8, 2019
By Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Jakarta, Indonesia — Months after Indonesia’s military was summoned to unclog Jakarta Bay, Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo has joined a chorus of disapproval of the nation’s growing plastic waste problem by calling parishioners to action.

Brazil's indigenous people fight back against Bolsonaro's attacks on Amazon

January 6, 2019
By Astrid Prange
Deutsche Welle

Germany and Brazil have a long history of partnering on environmental protection. But President Jair Bolsonaro’s stances on Brazil’s indigenous people and their lands threaten the progress that has been made.

'The Revolutionary Genius of Plants' Review: Thinking Like a Flower

January 4, 2019
By Gerard Helferich
Wall Street Journal

From wildfires come acts of kindness for those trying to recover

January 3, 2019
By Christina Gray, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Deacon Ray Helgeson left his home in Paradise on the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, with his wife, Donna, for daily Mass at the close-knit Butte County town’s only Catholic church. They never arrived.

Learning to say grace: The theology and politics of eating

January 3, 2019
By Norman Wirzba
ABC Religion and Ethics

“What’s for dinner?”

An interfaith group finds willing partners to restore a shared watershed

January 1, 2019
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service Environment
National Catholic Reporter

On a chilly fall day several weeks ago, volunteers from five Maryland congregations came together in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of Baltimore to plant 90 trees.

The planting was unique for two reasons: It drew a team of Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians and Conservative...

Our ladies of perpetual activism: Nuns for social justice

These sisters believe that their faith calls them to create a more just world.

By Liz Brazile, YES! Magazine
Nation of Change
December 27, 2018

Whether focusing on fossil fuels, social justice, or lobbying major corporations to be better stewards of the environment, these sisters believe that their faith calls them to create a more just world.

Irish prelate channels pope's environmental message on Christmas

December 25, 2018
By Christopher White
Crux

NEW YORK - On a night when Catholics are asked to reflect on the mystery of God becoming man, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh said that Christmas is an occasion to “marvel at the wonder of the universe,” from the unborn child to the vastness of creation.

Indigenous peoples denounce ongoing land rights violations in Ecuador

December 17, 2018
By Genevieve Belmaker
Mongabay

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