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As Cape Town's Water Crisis Nears 'Day Zero,' Faith Groups Spring into Action

February 7, 2018
By Brian Pellot, Religion News Service
Word & Way

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (RNS) — The trickling sound echoed through Zonnebloem Estate’s chapel as the Anglican bishop of Table Bay, the Rt. Rev. Garth Q. Counsell, slowly poured one pitcher of water into another. 

This sound of running water, once considered soothing, now triggers anxiety in drought-...

Webcast Series on Sustainability, Ethics and Action

February 5, 2018
FERNS - Yale Divinity School
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Globethics.net in collaboration with CITVN has produced a webcast series on the reading of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si, which has been describe as a ‘worldwide wake up call to help...

Minister urges Christians to act on climate

February 2, 2018
By Daisy Simmons
Yale Climate Connections

‘Love of God and neighbor means that we have to honor creation and care for it,’ she says.

Sharon Delgado is a retired United Methodist minister and activist who challenges Christians to reflect on how their faith relates to climate change.

Loyola's free e-textbook brings environmental ethics to classes worldwide

January 30, 2018
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

In October 2017, students at a Jesuit secondary school in Spain’s Aragon region were studying hurricanes. At the same time, their peers in Puerto Rico were living through the aftermath of one.

Do We Care Enough About Mother Earth?

January 24, 2018
By Ryan Torok
Jewish Journal

As the executive director of the Shalom Institute, a Jewish day camp and conference center in Malibu, Rabbi Bill Kaplan has been both a preacher and practitioner of environmentalism.

In 2016, his organization received $75,000 from the Homeland Security Grant Program, funds it used to install two solar power banks. What’s...

Pope's message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

January 22, 2018
By Justin Catanoso
Mongabay

From the Amazon, Francis decries policies that 'strangle' indigenous

January 19, 2018
By Joshua J. McElwee
National Catholic Reporter


Puerto Maldonado, Peru — Pope Francis stood among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Rainforest Jan. 19 to criticize the ramp-up of the global extraction industry in the world’s most biodiverse region and decry local policies that he said “strangle” its some 350 native tribes.

Interfaith Power & Light welcomes Susan Hendershot Guy as new president

January 19, 2018
Episcopal News Service

Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) announced that Rev. Susan Hendershot Guy will serve as its new president, ending a year-long search for the successor to founding president the Rev. Sally Bingham, who is retiring after leading the organization for 18 years.

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

January 19, 2018
By John Cannon
Mongabay

Pope in Amazon urges seamless defense of life, earth and cultures

January 19, 2018
By Inés San Martín
Crux

PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru - In the middle of Peru’s Amazon jungle, Pope Francis on Friday delivered what could be considered a “seamless garment” speech - stressing ecology and issuing a strong appeal for protection of the Amazon region, which he said is not an “inexhaustible source of resources,” while also insisting that human life has...

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