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Mexican Farmers Praise Pope Francis for Continued Advocacy of Environmental Protection

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Mexican Farmers Praise Pope Francis for Continued Advocacy of Environmental Protection and Climate Change Reform

As small farmers in Mexico fight to protect biodiversity and resist pesticides, they have found support in a higher power

By Karen Lo
The Daily Meal
February 16, 2016

Climate Change And Environmental Justice

February 16, 2016
By Charlie Shelton & Frank Stasio
WUNC – North Carolina Public Radio

A conversation with Wake Forest University School of Divinity professor Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo, and Miles Silman, professor of biology at Wake Forest University about climate change

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A Crime Against the People of Flint

February 15, 2016
By Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson Global Leader, Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC)
Huffington Post

The forest is crying

Fighting deforestation in the Congo Basin by giving voice to indigenous people

By Angela K. Evans
Boulder Weekly
February 11, 2016

“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”

Coal Money Divides Oakland's Churches

The company behind the plan to ship coal through Oakland has promised millions of dollars to Oakland churches for their support.

By Darwin BondGraham
East Bary Express
February 10, 2016

What these Christians are giving up for Lent: Fossil fuels

February 10, 2016
By Chelsea Harvey
Washington Post

A new initiative in the United Kingdom is not only calling for Christian communities to band together in support of clean energy, but actually helping them get their own electricity that way. The Big Church Switch, which launched Wednesday, aims to inspire both individuals and...

Poet Wendell Berry bequeaths farming legacy to small Catholic college

February 8, 2016
By Judith Valente, Religion News Service
National Catholic Reporter

St. Catharine, K.Y. – The tobacco farms, hay fields and rolling knobs of central Kentucky mark the landscape that inspires much of the work of award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist Wendell Berry.

Berry describes the solace he derives from this land in one of his most famous...

In February prayer video, Pope Francis pleads for creation care, 'a new way of living'

February 5, 2016
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

Pope Francis reinforced core messages of his major encyclical on the environment in his video prayer intention for February, asking people across the globe to do their part in “caring for our common home,” and to discover “a new way of living.”

The video, the new medium for the monthly prayer intentions, opens...

Why climate change is really, really unfair

February 5, 2016
By Chris Mooney
Washington Post

Heeding Pope Francis's Call, SJU Hosts Conference to Tackle Worldwide Crisis

February 2, 2016
St. John’s University

His Holiness Pope Francis’s deep concern for the global ecological crisis and its impact on the poor was the topic of the Ninth Biennial Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Conference, held on January 30 at the...

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