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250 Rabbis Sign Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis

May 11, 2015
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow  
The Shalom Center

Encouraged by Pope Francis’ work,  They Call for Vigorous Action

As of the morning of May 11, 2015, 250 rabbis have signed a Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis, calling for vigorous action to prevent worsening climate disruption and to seek eco-social justice.

Evangelicals become serious about climate change

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe presents a scientific-spiritual approach to the environment
 
By Douglas Todd
Vancouver Sun
May 9, 2015

Hundreds of millions of environmentalists will think “it’s about time” when they hear more evangelical Christians are becoming serious about tackling climate change.

A papal statement on climate change could lead to greener Britain

May 8, 2015
By Soli Salgado  
National Catholic Reporter

A third of British Catholics say they would consider “greening” their lifestyles should Pope Francis make an official statement on climate change.

Pope Francis: 'If We Destroy Creation, Creation Will Destroy Us'

May 6, 2015
By Kieran Cooke
EcoWatch

A declaration at the end of a meeting in Rome hosted by the Vatican made a plea to the world’s religions to engage and mobilize on...

Climate Change and the Christian Gospel: Why we need to respond more urgently

By David Atkins
Ekklesia
May 6, 2015
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/21667

A Roaring Force from One Unknowable Moment

Mary Evelyn Tucker in conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

Orion Magazine
May | June 2015
https://orionmagazine.org/issue/mayjune-2015/

The story of the universe has the power to change history

Pope Francis Unlikely to Sway Catholic Republicans on Climate Change

Party doctrine will probably trump church doctrine in Congress, experts say, where more than a quarter of lawmakers are Catholics.

By Katherine Bagley
InsideClimate News
May 1, 2015

Pope Francis plans this summer to issue an influential and the first-ever encyclical devoted to global warming and its effects on the world’s poor. Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/Aleteia

Pope Francis has given the climate movement just what it needed — faith

April 30, 2015
By Chris Mooney
Washington Post

This week — and it still feels strange to write this — the major climate change news story came out of the Vatican.

Blessed Are the Climate Advocates

The Vatican and United Nations present the beatitudes of a new movement.

By Michael Shank
Slate
May 1, 2015

This week, while at Vatican City in Rome to manage press for the first-ever meeting on climate change between Pope Francis and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, my faith in a force more powerful was renewed. I am not religious, despite being descended...

Pope Francis' Encyclical on Global Warming

April 30, 2015
By Henry Auer
Global Warming Blog

Encyclicals.  Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, will soon issue a papal encyclical on global warming.  An encyclical is a document transmitted through the church hierarchy to its 5,000 bishops, and from them to all 400,000 parish priests.  In this way its...

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