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In Peru's Madre de Dios region, church helps indigenous peoples survive

March 9, 2018
By Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Arazaire, Peru — Bishop David Martínez de Aguirre Guinea of Puerto Maldonado listened as Harakmbut leader Matilde Tije described the predicament of her people.

Pope chooses 2019 Synod of Bishops on Amazon theme, appoints council

March 8, 2018
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
Crux

ROME — Pope Francis has chosen the theme and appointed members of the preparatory council for the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon region, which will take place in Rome in October 2019.

The theme, the Vatican announced March 8, is “The Amazon: New paths for the Church and for an integral ecology.”

The pope...

Lifestory: Evangelical Christian Makes the Case for Climate Change

March 7, 2018
By Sebastien Malo, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Sight Magazine

Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and evangelical Christian, says she gets slammed every day on social media for her contributions to establishing that climate change is human-made.

But on Monday, she was welcomed with applause at a United Nations-backed climate...

'For us, land is life'

March 6, 2018
United Nations Environment Programme

It’s a dangerous time to be an environmental defender. In 2017, 197 people – nearly four every week – were murdered for defending the environment.

Ottawa's conservation plan puts Indigenous people in charge of protecting land

March 5, 2018
By Gloria Galloway
The Globe and Mail

The federal government will ask Indigenous people to take on the job of protecting vast regions of Canadian wilderness after this week’s budget promised “historic” investments in nature conservation.

Environmentalists, who praise Ottawa’s decision to spend more than a billion dollars to meet the country’s international...

Religious investors welcome Midwest utilities' action on climate change

March 2, 2018
By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Washington — Two religious communities have withdrawn shareholder resolutions filed with Midwest electric utilities after the companies announced they would publish climate risk assessment reports.

Pope's climate expert tells Nebraska audience: It's an issue in the laps of faith leaders

February 27, 2018
By Bill Kelly
NET News – Nebraska’s PBS and NPR Stations

Did you know Pope Francis has a scientist consulting him on issues related to climate change? Neither did we.

New project to challenge Catholics to reduce carbon footprint, care more for environment

February 27, 2018
By Mark Bowling
Catholic Leader

A project aimed at healing, protecting and caring for our common home is to be introduced in parishes and Catholic agencies across Brisbane archdiocese.

Called Living Laudato Si’, the project will draw on Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical – Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home – and will challenge Catholics to make...

Some Christians are cutting carbon for Lent

February 27, 2018
By Diana Madson
Yale Climate Connections

Instead of giving up luxuries, they’re reducing pollution.

The weeks just before Easter are known as Lent. It’s a time when many Christians fast or give up luxuries. Now, some churches and faith groups are encouraging Christians to reduce activities that contribute to global warming....

A climate scientist talks—respectfully—to climate-change skeptics

February 26, 2018
By Amy Frykholm
The Christian Century

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