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Pope Francis to activists: Stand with migrants, do not deny climate science...

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Pope Francis to activists: Stand with migrants, do not deny climate science, there is no such thing as ‘Islamic terrorism’

February 17, 2017
By Michael J. O’Loughlin
America: The Jesuit Review

Mapting: New photo-sharing app to popularize Sustainable Development Goals - Earth Charter

February 16, 2017
By Dino De Francesco and Sarah Dobson
Earth Charter Initiative

Discovering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Earth Charter Principles while spreading a positive message about the future of our planet through picture and video sharing —this is the idea behind Mapting, a new mobile app developed...

Native Americans opposing Dakota Access get a boost from Pope Francis

February 15, 2017
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post

Two Native American tribes are fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in a federal court, but on Wednesday they appeared to get support from a higher authority — Pope Francis.

Pope Francis, a longtime defender of indigenous rights, said that the need to reconcile development with those rights was “especially clear...

Wasting water: Waiting for true wake-up call

February 14, 2017
By Kari Pohl
Global Sisters Report

To Fight Urban Heat, Louisville Is Appealing to a Higher Power

February 13, 2017
By Laura Bliss
The Atlantic: CityLab

In the country’s fastest-warming urban heat island, places of worship are banding together to cool down.

Catholics supporting #NoDAPL movement see call to protect creation

February 9, 2017
By Jeannine M. Pitas
National Catholic Reporter

Dubuque, Iowa – In one of Donald Trump’s first acts as president, he signed executive orders expressing support for two controversial pipelines: the Keystone XL transnational pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The latter project has seen...

Standing Rock Sioux vow to challenge pipeline in court

February 9, 2017
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

A double-back decision by the Army to approve a final, critical permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline, while bypassing an environmental review, has led the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its allies to double down in their near-yearlong opposition to the contentious project they maintain endangers tribal water and sacred...

Religion can make us more environmentally friendly — or not

February 7, 2017
By Niki Rust
BBC

Eight out of 10 people around the world consider themselves religious. That figure shows that, while in many countries religion is not as dominant as it once was, it still has a huge influence on us.

What does that mean for the environmental movement? Does a belief in God or the supernatural make people more or less likely to take care...

Divinity School adds new concentrations

February 3, 2017
By Adelaide Feibel
Yale Daily News

With the addition of new concentration programs in Latinx theology and ecology, Yale Divinity School is making an effort to bring an age-old discipline into the 21st century.

The Lasting Effects of Pope Francis' Climate Change Edict

New research finds thinking about the pontiff changes the way we frame the issue.

By Tom Jacobs
Pacific Standard
February 2, 2017

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