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Details of the proposal for Pope Francis' US visit revealed

January 18, 2015
By Alan Holdren and Elise Harris
Catholic News Agency

Manila, Philippines (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Bernardito Auza – a member of the organizing committee for Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to the U.S. – has revealed details of the proposed schedule, which includes visits to three cities.

Storm Warnings for Pope's Climate Stop in the Philippines

January 16, 2015
By Andrew C. Revkin
Dot Earth
New York Times

[Updated, 11:40 p.m. | Pope Francis made it to Tacloban and, wearing a yellow plastic rain coat like those on the tens of thousands of people before him, delivered a simple and moving homily focused on assuaging people’s sense of loss. The...

Earth Keeper Newsletter

January 2015

Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute

http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=887c3de8b0&id=cf5449b637&e=a758405790

Take 5: Forum on Religion and Ecology co-director Mary Evelyn Tucker

January 16, 2015
By Susan Gonzalez
Yale News

Take 5 offers a brief introduction to Yale faculty members in a Q&A format. The featured faculty member selects 5 out of 10 questions to answer. Any opinions shared are not necessarily those of YaleNews.

Pope Francis Hopes World Leaders Will Make the Environment a Priority

January 16, 2015
By Ashley Curtin
Nation of Change – Bullhorn

In a recent interview, Pope Francis is making the environment a priority this year in hopes that his encyclical on ecology will encourage world leaders to reach an agreement during the next round of climate change talks in Paris in November.

Church Authority and Assent: Clarifications Ahead of Pope Francis's Encyclical

January 16, 2015
By Daniel DiLeo
Political Theology Today

Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists

January 15, 2015
By Oliver Milman
The Guardian

Humans are “eating away at our own life support systems” at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years by degrading land and freshwater systems, emitting greenhouse gases and releasing vast amounts of agricultural chemicals into the environment, new research has found.

Two major new studies by an international team of...

Whether they want it or not, Republicans get religion on climate change

By Scott Detrow, E&E reporter
ClimateWire
January 15, 2015

On the rare chance any Republican congressmen or senators leave the premises of the Hershey Lodge during their joint caucus retreat today, they’ll be greeted by an interfaith religious service aimed at motivating the GOP lawmakers to take action on climate change.

Solutions

Environmental Defense Fund Newsletter

Vol. 46, No. 1

Winter 2015

http://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/content/solutions_winter2015.pdf

Pope to make moral case for action on climate change

January 14, 2015
By Andy Coghlan
New Scientist

COULD one man succeed in spurring decisive action on global warming? Pope Francis, leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, plans to release a ground-breaking appeal to combat climate change, in a major document...

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