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The Greening of Pope Francis

March 31, 2015
By Charles J. Reid, Jr.
The Huffington Post

Pope Francis is poised, within the next two or three months, to announce one of the signature documents of his papacy, an encyclical on climate change. And we can hope and pray that it will be “world-changing” in the very best sense of that expression.

Ash Wednesday Declaration bears fruit on Good Friday

March 31, 2015
Operation Noah

Twenty Anglican bishops have just released a statement entitled The World is our Host for Good Friday, which calls Churches to urgent prayer and action for climate justice and ‘sets a new agenda on climate change for the 85 million-strong Anglican Communion.’ Operation Noah welcomes this strong and...

Papal ecology: Protecting all God's creatures, respecting God's plan

March 26, 2015
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic Church supports the efforts of scientists to study the causes and effects of climate change and insists governments and businesses must get serious about specific commitments for protecting the environment.

Call for Papers: Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More-Than-Human World

Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More-Than-Human World invites theologians to address how personal, autobiographical encounters with the planet and its more-than-human inhabitants provide a foundation for shaping a theology. As such, the essays within this collected volume construct theologies of a more-than-human world based on the affective encounters emerging...

Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee Backs Report about Animal Experiments as Morally 'Unthinkable'

Press Release on Centre’s Report on the Ethics of Animal Experiments

Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee Backs a New Report which Describes Animal Experiments as Morally ‘Unthinkable’

Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
March 26, 2015

Climate denial is immoral, says head of US Episcopal church

Climate change is a moral challenge threatening the rights of the world’s poorest people and those who deny it are not using God’s gift of knowledge, says presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

By Suzanne Goldenberg
The Guardian
March 24, 2015

The highest ranking woman in the Anglican communion has said climate denial is a “blind” and immoral position which rejects...

Pope: Future of humanity depends on protecting, sharing water

March 23, 2015
By Carol Glatz
National Catholic Reporter

Vatican City – The future of humanity depends on safeguarding and sharing potable water around the world, Pope Francis said.

“I encourage, therefore, the international community to make sure the planet’s water is adequately protected and no one is excluded or discriminated against” in the fair use of this resource...

Pope puts climate heat on GOP

March 23, 2015
By Tom Krattenmaker
USA Today

With Catholic advances in Republican Party hierarchy, will papal views hold sway?

'Water man of India' Rajendra Singh bags top prize

March 21, 2015
By Roger Harrabin, BBC environment analyst
BBC

An award known as “the Nobel Prize for water” has been given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water to 1,000 villages.

The judges of the Stockholm Water Prize say his methods have also prevented floods, restored soil and...

SGI Joins FBOs in Events on Disaster Risk Reduction at WCDRR

March 18, 2015
Soka Gakkai International

From March 14-18, the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) was held in Sendai city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As a side event, on March 15, a symposium titled “Community based DRR from a faith-based perspective – sharing best practices” was co-organized by ACT Alliance and SGI in cooperation with the Japan Religion...

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