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Indonesia: The home of "Green Islam"

November 16, 2009
By Peter Gelling
GlobalPost

Can Quranic teaching save the planet? Many in the world’s most-populous Muslim nation think so.

IMOGIRI, Indonesia — Scattered on a forested hillside in this remote, almost pristine area of Central Java is the Ilmu Giri Pesantren, an Islamic boarding school that six years ago began offering a new kind of curriculum to a...

Hindus criticize World Hunger Summit for ignoring religious leaders except Pope

November 14, 2009
Asian Tribune

Hindus have strongly criticized non-inclusion of world religious leaders, except Pope, in much-publicized and prestigious “World Summit on Food Security” of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations at Rome from November 16-18.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement released in the state of Nevada, emphasized that...

World's churches urged to ring bells against climate change

November 12, 2009
Agence France-Presse World News

The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming.

The leading council of Christian and Orthodox churches also invited places of worship for other faiths to join a symbolic...

Churches to ring the alarm on climate change

November 11, 2009
World Council of Churches
Press Release

As nations are spelling out their bargaining positions for the negotiations on a new international climate deal to take place in Copenhagen next month, churches around the world are trying to ring home the message that climate protection is an ethical and spiritual issue.

Irish Bishops launch pastoral reflection on environment

November 10, 2009
Independent Catholic News

Archbishop Dermot Clifford, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, today launched The Cry of the Earth, a pastoral reflection on climate change from the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference.  The launch took place in St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Belmayne, Dublin, beside Father Collins Park, Ireland’s first wholly sustainable park.

Can Jewish Tenets be a Model for a More Eco-Friendly World?

November 9, 2009
By Gil Shefler
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Wire Service

Have Jews been “green” for millennia without knowing it?

A Jewish delegation made the case this week to a climate-change conference in Britain, arguing for...

Religious leaders hand 60 plans on climate change to the UN

November 8, 2009
Ecumenical News International

Leaders of nine major faiths have presented 60 ideas to lessen carbon emissions to the United Nations after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon singled out the religious community as key in fighting climate change - writes Trevor Grundy.

Couple's book tackles evangelicals' questions on climate change

November 8, 2009
By Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers 
The Miami Herald

As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they’d heard on talk radio.

So Hayhoe and her husband, Andrew Farley, the pastor of a nondenominational church in Lubbock, Texas,...

God's Green Earth

November 6, 2009
National Public Radio

There may be a prayer for climate change prevention. Major world religious leaders and conservation organizations recently gathered in Windsor, England for the Many Heavens, One Earth conference to advance the fight against climate change. Host Jeff Young speaks with Martin Palmer, Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions and...

Sounding the Trumpet

November 5, 2009
The Economist

A link-up between faith and greenery brings unlikely people together

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