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Confronting climate change is our moral obligation

April 27, 2016
By Most Reverend Oscar Cantú and Most Reverend Broderick Pabillo
The Hill

We are bishops from the global South and North, united by faith and humanity. As pastors, we seek to comfort the young and the old, the healthy and the infirm.

The Power of Memory: Chernobyl Thirty Years Later

By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
April 26, 2016

Thirty years ago, in the early morning of April 26, 1986, even as the Orthodox Church was about to embark on its holiest of weeks leading to the joy of Easter, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, creating the worst nuclear disaster that the world had seen up to that time.

Rouhani opens Intl. Seminar on Environment, Religion, Culture

April 23, 2016
Mehr News Agency

TEHRAN (MNA) – The 2nd ‘International Seminar on Environment, Religion, and Culture’ was opened at Tehran’s Pardisan Park Sat. morning with the presence of President Rouhani and participants of 15 countries.

Minding Animals Bulletin 32

April 24, 2016

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On Earth Day, Pope Francis calls all 'to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator'

April 22, 2016
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

See the world through the eyes of the Creator, Pope Francis said at the end of his general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, marking Earth Day.

“I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be...

Catholics join Earth Day effort to plant 7.8 billion trees

April 22, 2016
By Brian Roewe
National Catholic Reporter

The new juniper tree at Light of Hearts Villa, in Bedford, Ohio, offers its nearly 100 residents another scenic outpost in the landscape that often draws deer, fox and recently, a peregrine falcon.

The tree was planted as part of the assisted-living community’s Earth Day celebration on Thursday. Some of the 25...

Brazil suspends Amazon dam project over fears for indigenous people

April 22, 2016
By Chris Arsenault
Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land rights campaigners have welcomed the suspension of a mega-dam project in Brazil’s Amazon basin which would have flooded an area the size of New York City and displaced indigenous communities.

The São Luiz do Tapajós dam would have forced Munduruku indigenous people out of their...

In Photos: The Indigenous Protectors of the World's Most Sacred Places

All around the world, sites sacred to indigenous people are besieged by mining, tourism, and other threats. Meet the groups safeguarding and restoring them.

By Christopher McLeod
YES! Magazine
April 21, 2016

"We have to move now": Islanders watch as their home disappears in the sea

April 20, 2016
By Mark Bowling
The Catholic Leader

ALMOST 6000 islanders to Australia’s north face forced evacuation as they watch their low-lying Pacific homelands disappear under rising seas.

Their plight amounts to just a drop in the ocean, and yet these island people take solace from Pope Francis’ call for action on climate change and the environment, and for the...

Delivering on the Promises of Paris: Why the World's Muslims Are Demanding Climate Action Now

By Naser Haghamed, CEO of Islamic Relief Worldwide, an independent humanitarian and development organisation with a presence in over 40 countries worldwide

Huffington Post
April 18, 2016

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