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Pope thanks Jains for commitment to care for environment

June 1, 2016
Independent Catholic News

Pope Francis today thanked the Jain community for its commitment to protect “our sister Earth.” The Pope’s words came as he received members of the Institute of Jainology in private audience in the Vatican before leading the weekly General Audience in St Peter’s Square.

The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity

By Benjamin T. Wilder, Carolyn O’Meara, Laurie Monti, and Gary Paul Nabhan
BioScience 66 (6): 499-509.
June 01, 2016

Environmental challenges — a forceful argument for global citizenship

May 31, 2016
UN News Centre

While global citizenship means many things to many people, discussions at the sixty-sixth United Nations/Non-Governmental Organizations Conference maintained that cultivating empathy, a scientific appreciation for the natural world and responsibility towards future generations must be at the...

Priest promotes care for earth

May 31, 2016
By Jennifer Burke
Catholic Courier

Pope Francis’ concern for the poor and his promotion of mercy are well-known worldwide. Thus, early in the spring of 2015, many Vatican watchers thought the first encyclical penned solely by Pope Francis would focus on either mercy or care for the poor, according to Father Emmanuel Katongole, associate professor of world...

Contamination of Sacred Lake Underscores Environmental Racism in Guatemala

May 28, 2016
By Jeff Abbott
Truthout

Women Deliver: Young Women Climate Warriors Speak

May 29, 2016
By Stella Paul
Women News Network

(WNN) Copenhagen, Denmark, EUROPE:  Seven years have gone by since then, but Majandra Rodrigues Acha of Lima still cannot forget the day she saw the true face of a woman’s vulnerability. It was June 2009 and television channels across Peru were broadcasting the news of a riot that erupted between the country’s...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Revokes Permit for Dakota Pipeline in Iowa

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Revokes Sovereign Lands Construction Permit for Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa

May 27, 2016
Indigenous Environmental Network

Creation Justice Ministries Newsletter

Spring 2016

http://www.creationjustice.org/capsules.html

5 Huge Climate Success Stories 10 Years After the Release of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'

May 24, 2016
The Climate Reality Project
EcoWatch

Here’s something to smile about. Check out five of our favorite climate successes in the past decade.

Laudato Si' turns one year old: Time for action

May 24, 2016
By Michael Sean Winters
National Catholic Reporter

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