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The Spirit of Standing Rock on the Move

By Stephanie Woodard
YES! Magazine
January 24, 2017

YES! Special Report

People from more than 300 tribes traveled to the North Dakota plains to pray and march in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. Back home, each tribe faces its own version of the “black snake” and a centuries-old struggle to survive.

The ecology of burial: Choices reflect beliefs about life after death

January 21, 2017
By Robert Duncan, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Vatican City - In a craftsman’s workshop on the edge of Rome’s Campo Verano cemetery, two designers are working to revive what they see as a dying art: burial.

Unlike the masons who make the cemetery’s gravestones and...

American sisters tackling climate care resolve to stay the course

January 19, 2017
By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans
Global Sisters Report

Women Are 'Backbone' of Native Actions Against Dakota Pipeline

January 16, 2017
teleSUR

Several Native American women spoke with teleSUR about their role in the protests against the oil project in North Dakota.

The actions and protests against the Dakota Access pipeline could not have yielded success if it had not been for the participation of the Native American women water protectors as they took on a...

Eucharistic prayer in the 21st century

January 12, 2017
By Thomas Reese
National Catholic Reporter

One of the greatest liturgical challenges of the church in the 21st century is to figure out how to do liturgy in a way that is meaningful to people in a post-Darwin, post-Einstein, post-Hubble world.  

Traditional liturgical prayer, based on biblical imagery, presumes a pre-scientific worldview where Earth is...

Utah's new national monument marks big win for the protection of Indigenous cultural sites

By permanently protecting an area rich in indigenous cultural history, Obama has shown that some things are worth more than money.

By Jacqueline Keeler
Nation of Change
January 10, 2017

Face to face with Pope Francis: A reminder of why we must fight inequality and injustice everywhere

January 10, 2017
By Fred Krupp
Environmental Defense Fund

It was one of those rare moments in life that crystallize your sense of purpose, at a most critical time.

Native Americans fight Texas pipeline using 'same model as Standing Rock'

January 9, 2017
By Sam Levin
The Guardian

The Two Rivers camp, protesting the Trans-Pecos pipeline, is the latest sign that the Standing Rock movement is inspiring indigenous-led activism across the US.

Indigenous activists have set up camps in the Texas desert to fight a pipeline project there, the latest sign that the Standing Rock “water protector”...

Ecuador's leading environmental group fights to stop forced closure

NGO Acción Ecológica responds to the government’s attempt to close the organization down

By David Hill
The Guardian
January 7, 2017

Members of one of Latin America’s most well-known environmental organisations, Acción Ecológica, are fighting for their survival against a controversial attempt by...

Amazon Indigenous REDD+: an innovative approach to conserve Colombian forests?

January 6, 2017
By Eliana Garzón
Mongabay

Summary:

* The Amazon Indigenous REDD+ (RIA) initiative led in Colombia by the indigenous organization OPIAC is being implemented in the departments of Amazonas and Guainia, territories made up of 169 indigenous reservations of 56 different villages, not counting the populations that are in voluntary isolation.

 

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