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Marian devotees in Vietnam urged to take responsibility for environment

August 16, 2016
By Joachim Pham
National Catholic Reporter

Catholics in the central Vietnamese diocese of Vinh who attended feast of the Assumption celebrations Aug. 15 were urged to help victims of marine pollution and to work to protect the environment.

Louisiana flooding displaces 20,000, Baton Rouge churches call for volunteers

August 16, 2016
By Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

As Louisiana’s governor announced the federal government had declared a major disaster for the state Saturday, Catholic churches in the Baton Rouge diocese called for volunteers to help those displaced by extreme flooding and asked flood victims what assistance they needed.

A World at War

We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII.

By Bill McKibben
New Republic
August 15, 2016

Indigenous peoples look to preserve environment

August 15, 2016
By Lucy Cormack
The Sydney Morning Herald

Amelia Telford remembers the moment huge slabs of her country were swallowed by the sea.

It was 2009 and a severe storm had battered Kingscliff, her home on the east coast of Australia. Several meters of beach and dune disappeared, while cranes were needed to shift whole buildings back to save them from the water...

Dakota Access Pipeline Standoff: Mni Wiconi, Water is Life

August 15, 2016
By Valerie Taliman
Indian Country Today Media Network

The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline project is back in the news. Over the weekend, tribal activists faced off against lines of police in Hunkpapa Territory near Cannon Ball as construction crews prepared to break ground for the new pipeline, while Standing Rock Sioux governmental officials resolved to...

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When Protest Becomes Sacrament: Grady Sisters Heed a Higher Call

These Catholic social justice advocates are exemplars of the force behind We Are Seneca Lake, one of the nation’s longest-running campaigns of civil disobedience.

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Inside Climate News
August 10, 2016

Top 10 messages of 'Laudato Si'"

August 9, 2016
By Father James Martin, SJ
Catholic San Francisco

Jesuit Father James Martin, editor-at-large for America magazine, distilled the nearly 200 pages of “Laudato Si’” into 10 key messages in a four-minute video produced last summer, offering Catholics a visual digest of the document. View it at sfarch.org...

Charity Sr. Paula Gonzalez, 'the solar nun,' dies at age 83

August 9, 2016
By Sharon Abercrombie
National Catholic Reporter

Environmentalists are mourning the death of Charity Sr. Paula Gonzalez, a Cincinnati nun who spent the last 45 years of her life advocating for renewable energy. Gonzalez, 83, died July 31 at the Charity Sisters’ Ohio motherhouse.

Closed mines haunt two towns in Honduras as threats against activists mount

August 8, 2016
By J. Malcolm Garcia
Global Sisters Report

Global Sisters Report is focusing a special series on mining and extractive industries and the women religious who work to limit damage and impact on people and the environment, through advocacy, action and policy. Pope Francis last...

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