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Organizers want 'Black Nazarene' festival in Philippines to go green

January 8, 2018
By Inés San Martín
Crux

Three years ago, Pope Francis shattered the all-time record for turnout for a papal Mass by drawing an estimated six million people in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The previous record had also been set in the heavily Catholic Asian nation, when St. Pope John Paul II is believed to have celebrated a concluding Mass at World...

Pope to teachers: Help kids live with care for all of creation

January 5, 2018
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Vatican City — A lifestyle that is environmentally ethical cannot be “schizophrenic” — for example, by showing more care for animals and forests, than for the plight of people, Pope Francis said.

A green lifestyle must be consistent and complete, driven by a love for God...

Pope to hear from indigenous about ministry, land rights in Chile, Peru

January 3, 2018
By Barbara J. Fraser
National Catholic Reporter

TEMUCO, Chile — Sergio Catalaf’s son was just 3 days old when police arrested the Mapuche Indian leader, accusing him of terrorism. He and 10 other Mapuche leaders spent 14 months in preventive detention before being acquitted in October of setting fire to a farmhouse in which an elderly couple...

UN intervention needed to protect indigenous mountain cultures

December 31, 2017
By Haares Munir
Daily Times

‘Food and Agricultural Organisation Pakistan shall gear up and lead a Sustainable Mountain Development agenda,’ says Founding Director Pakistan Mountain Festival Munir Ahmed