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Amid Haiti's challenges, congregation continues serving those living in poverty

May 14, 2018
By Chris Herlinger
Global Sisters Report

“Come, let’s cheer the Word of God. It is a word of life. It is a word of love and peace.”

At once joyous, inspiring and hopeful, the acclamation, sung in French at a service of perpetual profession, came on a sunny, mild day with no clouds, no winds and no seeming threats.

It was a day that belonged to God....

Cemetery's green project aims to 'protect God's magnificent creation'

May 11, 2018
By Richard Szczepanowski, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Washington — Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington blessed a newly completed green infrastructure project at a Catholic cemetery May 7, saying it “is part of our effort to keep God’s creation as beautiful as when he created it.”

Deal on Murray Darling Basin Plan could make history for Indigenous water rights

May 9, 2018
By Sue Jackson
The Conversation

On Monday night the Labor Party agreed to a federal government policy package intended to ensure the survival of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

The proposed amendments to the plan, and the complex technical details of water allocation, have been heavily scrutinised as a politically intriguing development in the long-standing...

Indigenous and Child Environmental Activists Receive WWF Award

May 10, 2018
Telesur

“We depend on a healthy environment and a surrounding that is alive,” Nina Gualinga said during the award ceremony.

Two Latin American women received the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International President’s Youth award, given to people under 30 who have made significant contributions to nature...

World Vision launches sermon guide on WASH

May 10, 2018
By Gifty Amofa
Ghana News Agency

Accra - The World Vision International, Ghana, a Christian humanitarian organization, has launched a sermon guide on Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) with a call on Christians to rise-up to promote human transformation.

The guide is to ensure that Christian leaders understand WASH issues to help cause attitudinal and...

Religious leaders mobilize to protect indigenous people and forests

May 2, 2018
By Willie Shubert
Mongabay

Reading the Quran Connects Me to Nature

May 1, 2018
By Jai Hamid Bashir
Sierra Club

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives

By James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III

The Environmental Forum
Environmental Law Institute
May/June 2018
 
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Mormon environmentalist conveys ecological message through fiction

April 30, 2018
By Jana Riess
Religion News Service

The phrase “Mormon environmentalist” is not one you hear every day, given that Mormons in the United States are often politically conservative. But Utah resident George Handley is exactly that – committed to both the Mormon faith and to rescuing the environment.

'Catholics Are Still In' campaign recommits support for Paris climate pact

April 30, 2018
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

As federal steps to curb climate change wane in the United States, a new campaign looks to add a loud and broad Catholic voice to a nationwide reassertion of American commitment to the international pact to address a warming world.

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