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Faith-based group launches Asia Pacific faith-based coalition for sustainable development

March 30, 2018
World Vision International

BANGKOK - World Vision in partnership with ACT Alliance, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Soka Gakkai International, Arigatou International, and Asia Civil Society Partnership for Sustainable Development launched the Asia Pacific faith-based coalition for sustainable development during the...

Q & A with Sr. Miriam MacGillis, co-founder of Genesis Farm

March 29, 2018
By Dan Stockman
Global Sisters Report

Sr. Miriam MacGillis of the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, New Jersey, was a very happy art teacher in the 1960s. Then one of her students began to ask her questions about the Vietnam War, questions she had trouble answering. Questions that showed how naive MacGillis was...

Deep incarnation liberates all creation

March 28, 2018
By Marian Ronan
National Catholic Reporter

CREATION AND THE CROSS: THE MERCY OF GOD FOR A PLANET IN PERIL

By Elizabeth A. Johnson

256 pages; Published by Orbis Books

$28.00

Irish missionaries aiming to plant a million trees in parched regions of Africa

March 26, 2018
Irish Examiner

Irish missionaries are spearheading a bid to plant a million trees as part of the re-greening of one of Africa’s most parched regions.

The Republic has been invited by the United Nations to take a leadership role in helping deliver the Great Green Wall and combat desertification in a massive swathe of land south of the Sahara known as the Sahel...

From Ecuador's Amazon to president's palace, indigenous women demand end to drilling

March 24, 2018
Stabroek News

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous women from Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest have called on the country’s president to end oil and mining projects on their ancestral lands, as the nation pushes to open up more of its rainforest to drillers.

Their meeting with Lenin Moreno at the presidential palace in the capital Quito late Thursday...

At global forums, church leaders advocate for safe water for all

March 23, 2018
By Lise Alves, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Brasilia, Brazil — Erileid Domingues said most of her indigenous village has, at one time or another, fallen ill due to contaminated water.

Domingues said her village in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul is surrounded by large soybean and corn plantations that use agro-toxins...

Latin American bishops call for 'ecological conversion'

March 23, 2018
By Barbara J. Fraser, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Lima, Peru — Less than two months after Pope Francis spoke out about environmental destruction in the Amazon basin during a visit to Peru, bishops from Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a pastoral letter calling the region’s Catholics to an “integral ecological...

Pastor mobilizes black churches to act on climate

March 22, 2018
By Diana Madson
Yale Climate Connections

His own church is teaching children how to care for creation.

Reverend Doctor Ambrose F. Carroll says that African American churches are not often associated with environmentalism. But he wants to change that.

So he founded Green...

Cardinal Ribat raises concerns with rising seas, deep-sea mining

March 22, 2018
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

Rising seas and new technology to mine beneath them are forefront concerns these days for Cardinal John Ribat of Papua New Guinea.

During a 12-day U.S. trip along the East Coast that concludes March 22, the head of the Port Moresby archdiocese on the South Pacific island nation has in numerous settings expressed...

The last male rhino of its kind dies. African religious leaders call it a spiritual loss.

March 21, 2018
By Fredrick Nzwili
Religion News Service

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Religious leaders who campaign for wildlife conservation are mourning the death of the world’s last male northern white rhino, calling the subspecies’ likely extinction a spiritual loss.

“We are staring at the extinction of the animal type, under our watch. I think...

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