News Items

The Forum regularly posts news articles of interest here from a variety of sources and news outlets. You can check back here or view the most recent ones from the homepage. We also archive these articles here, for those doing research, with news going back to 2006. Use the menu on the right to explore the archived articles.

News

Environmental Destruction, Inequality And Loneliness. Why Capitalism Is Broken.

October 26, 2017
By Jo Confino
Huffington Post

When everything seems to be changing, it becomes increasingly important to know what endures.

A timely reminder of this has come this week thanks to the auction in Israel of a ...

Faith groups using their investment funds to create a better world

October 24, 2017    
Alliance of Religions and Conservation

ZUG, SWITZERLAND: Financial investors and leaders of more than 30 different faith traditions representing over 500 faith investment groups from eight religions and around three trillion dollars in assets, will meet in Zug this month, together with representatives of the UN and some key ethical “impact” investment funds,...

Ganges under threat from climate change

October 24, 2017
By Jasvinder Sehgal
Deutsche Welle

The river Ganges holds deep religious and ritualistic significance for India’s million of Hindus. But climate change is endangering the holy river, reports Jasvinder Sehgal.

The sun is setting in Rishikesh, an Indian city in the Himalayan foothills. Hundreds of people have converged on the banks of the Ganges...

Vatican's top diplomat: Water must be available to all, especially the poor

October 24, 2017
By Claire Giangravè
Cruz

ROME – Speaking at a conference in Rome on water and climate, the Vatican’s top diplomat said that while the scarcity of water may create conflict and even war, it could also generate opportunities for partnerships and collaborations to benefit especially the poor.

'Civilize the market' for common good, care of creation, pope says

October 20, 2017
By Cindy Wooden
Crux

ROME - Economic development and growth have never automatically meant a greater gap between the rich and poor, so there is no reason today for people to throw up their hands and simply accept increasing inequality, Pope Francis said.

Xi Jinping to China: "Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us"

October 18, 2017
By Echo Huang and Tripti Lahiri
Quartz

In 2012, in a key party leadership speech, China vowed to work with international society to “actively respond” to climate change. Five years on, president Xi Jinping just told China that it is in the “driving seat” when it comes to preserving the planet for future...

Pope addresses "Religions for Peace" delegation

October 18, 2017
Vatican Radio

“Religions, with their spiritual and moral resources, have a specific and ‎unique role to play in building ‎peace,” Pope Francis said on Wednesday.  “They cannot be neutral, much less ‎ambiguous, where peace is concerned,” he ‎told a delegation of 80 members of “Religions for Peace”, who met him...

Forget Marx and Mao. Chinese City Honors Once-Banned Confucian.

October 18, 2017
By Ian Johnson
New York Times

GUIYANG, China — Nearly 500 years after he died, the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming once again wielded a calligraphy brush, carefully daubed it into a tray of black ink and elegantly wrote out his most famous phrase: “the unity of knowledge and action.”

A crowd murmured its approval as his assistant held up the paper for...

For Abandoning Climate Accord, Pope Swipes Trump on World Food Day

October 16, 2017
By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams

Pope Francis says addressing armed conflicts and the effects of climate change are “prerequisites” for ending global hunger

Pope Francis seemed to take a jab at the United States and President Donald Trump on Monday, while speaking at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Rome headquarters...

Kenyan Youths vouch for Ecological Farming

October 16, 2017
By George Okore
Africa Science News

Kenyan students want their government to take urgent steps to safe-guard the country’s food security and protect consumers from the threats of a broken food system.

More news...