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World Faith Leaders to Protect Global Deforestation

June 17, 2017
Religions for Peace Australia

'Laudato Si' ' Pledge seeks mass Catholic climate mobilization ahead of encyclical anniversary

June 17, 2017
By Brian Roewe  
National Catholic Reporter

Nearly two years after publication of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical Laudato Si’, a global Catholic campaign hopes to recruit 1 million Catholics to keep its message alive and animated in the daily lives of Catholics, in particular around the issue of climate change.

African Commission Passes Resolution on Sacred Natural Sites

June 14, 2017
Earth Jurisprudence at the Gaia Foundation

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has passed a resolution, at its 60th ordinary session, held in Niamey last month, on the protection and recognition of Sacred Natural Sites and Territories.

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Unprecedented Meeting of World Faith Leaders to Take on Global Deforestation

June 14, 2017
Parliament of the World’s Religions

Unprecedented Meeting of World Faith Leaders to take on Global Deforestation Monday, June 19, at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway

How Standing Rock became a spiritual pilgrimage for activists

June 14, 2017
By Eileen Markey
America: The Jesuit Review

Growing Concern Over Climate Change Is Creating Interfaith Dialogue

June 13, 2017
By Justin Catanoso
Pacific Standard

Two years after Pope Francis launched Laudato Si, the Vatican’s plea to save the Earth, Trump rejected its tenets and the Paris Agreement. But people of all faiths are unified globally to beat climate change.

ExxonMobil shareholders push through climate resolution

June 13, 2017
By Brian Roewe  
National Catholic Reporter

When ExxonMobil shareholders overwhelmingly voted in late May in favor of a resolution aimed at shedding light on the impacts of addressing climate change on the oil company’s long-term assets,...

Theologians blast Paris Agreement withdrawal, call for creation care

June 13, 2017  
By Heidi Schlumpf  
National Catholic Reporter

Unprecedented Meeting of World Faith Leaders to take on Global Deforestation

  
June 11, 2017
Press Release

Unprecedented Meeting of World Faith Leaders to take on Global Deforestation
Monday, June 19, at the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway

Norway to host leaders from world’s spiritual and religious traditions, engaging faith communities to protect rainforests...

Religious Liberals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game.

June 10, 2017
By Laurie Goodstein
New York Times

“We’re in a real battle for the soul of faith, of Christianity, of this nation,” said the Rev. Troy Jackson, executive director of the Amos Project, a multifaith social-justice coalition in Cincinnati.

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