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Federation News No. 1, 2017

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Vatican investment conference explores clean energy 'for our common home'

March 14, 2017
By Marie Venner  
National Catholic Reporter

Vatican City - In late January, I had the opportunity to attend a small conference at the Pontifical Lateran University on Catholic actions, financial and otherwise, to resolve the climate crisis. 

Native Americans march to the White House in spiritual battle against pipeline

March 10, 2017
By Lilly Fowler
Religion News Service   

Washington - On a cold rainy morning, members of the American Indian tribes shouted “Water is sacred” and “Keep it in the soil; can’t drink oil” as they marched toward the White House.

The March 10 protest against the Dakota Access pipeline included hundreds of Native Americans, some dressed in traditional...

Pope receives electric car, as studies for an all-renewables Vatican underway

March 10, 2017
By Brian Roewe  
National Catholic Reporter

El Papa’s got a brand new car. And it’s electric.

In December, Pope Francis received a Nissan Leaf electric car as a birthday present from Jochen Wermuth of Wermuth Asset Management, a German investment firm focused on sustainability. The gift was made public in late February.

Later this year, the firm...

Strengthened by Standing Rock, Native Americans march on D.C. What's next for the movement?

March 10, 2017
By Elizabeth Flock and Iman Smith
PBS

Despite bitter cold, wind, rain and hail, hundreds of members of Native American tribes and supporters from around the country turned out Friday to march on the White House, in an effort to turn the momentum of the ...

Asia-Oceania Meeting of Religious inspires eco-citizens

March 9, 2017
By Gail DeGeorge
Global Sisters Report

As the Asia-Oceania Meeting of Religious XVII wrapped up March 3 in Yangon, Myanmar, participants said they would carry with them a renewed commitment to their responsibility as eco-citizens, the message of environmental care to their congregations and beyond, and an affirmation of the meeting’s importance in strengthening...

Pope goes electric, sets example for world leaders

March 3, 2017
By Julia Travers
NationofChange

“Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it.”

'Great world war for water' may be looming, Pope Francis says

February 25, 2017
RT

Water scarcity may cause conflict and the whole globe may be on its way to a great world war over water, Pope Francis has warned, adding that the situation is very “urgent.”

The Indigenous Environment Network Responds to Forced Evacuation of DAPL Resistance Camps

February 23, 2017
By Jade Begay and Nina Smith
Common Dreams

Pope says indigenous people must have final say about their land

February 20, 2017
By David Hill
The Guardian

In the 15th century papal bulls promoted and provided legal justification for the conquest and theft of indigenous peoples’ lands and resources worldwide - the consequences of which are still being felt today. The right to conquest in one such bull, the Romanus Pontifex, issued in the 1450s when Nicholas V was the Pope, was...

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