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This massive natural gas pipeline will run right through Native American communities

July 26, 2017
By Mark Hand
Think Progress

Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline disproportionately affects Native communities.

Protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota escalated more than a year ago when Native Americans...

Environmental Teachings of Islam

July 25, 2017
By Ashraf Amin
Kashmir Images

Vatican shuts down fountains as Rome deals with drought

July 25, 2017
By Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – While Rome reels from one of its worst droughts in decades, the Vatican is doing its part to conserve water by shutting down the city-state’s 100 fountains.

The office governing Vatican City State announced July 25 that the drought has “led the Holy See to take measures aimed at saving...

Keeping faith in forests

July 25, 2017
By Frances Seymour, World Resources Institute
Thomson Reuters Foundation

If climate change is the defining challenge for human society, preserving tropical forests is essential - and faith can help

Is Surfing More Sport or Religion?

July 23, 2017
By Jaimal Yogis
The Atlantic

Even hardcore devotees disagree, though many acknowledge there’s something profoundly spiritual about catching waves—a feeling scientists attribute to the power of being in the water.

There goes the neighborhood

July 22, 2017
By Phyllis Zagano  
National Catholic Reporter

In recent weeks, the United States withdrew from the Paris climate agreement and an iceberg the size of Delaware broke off from...

Water Walk For Life Along Proposed Pipeline Route

July 21, 2017
By Dave Lucas
WAMC Northeast Public Radio

This weekend, an internationally renowned environmentalist and human rights activist will embark on a 170-mile “Water Walk For Life,” protesting proposed pipelines that would run from Albany to New Jersey.

Adorers of the Blood of Christ take pipeline protest to court

July 18, 2017
By Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
Global Sisters Report

The Adorers of the Blood of Christ are taking their fight against the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline to court. On July 14, five days after dedicating a chapel in the pathway of the planned pipeline...

Archbishop: Brazil trying to undo protections for indigenous peoples

July 18, 2017
By Mary Durran, Catholic News Service  
National Catholic Reporter

The Brazilian government is working to undo constitutional protections for indigenous peoples, the president of the bishops’ commission on indigenous peoples told Catholic News Service as he vacationed in Canada.

Hinduism and its complicated history with cows (and people who eat them)

July 16, 2017
By Wendy Doniger
The Conversation

Just this past June, at a national meeting of various Hindu organizations in India, a popular preacher, Sadhvi Saraswati, suggested that those who consumed beef should be publicly hanged. Later, at the same...

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