July 2016 News

July 31, 2016
July 30, 2016By Carol GlatzCatholic News Service Vatican City – Today’s lush and immaculately manicured Vatican Gardens were once just a sprawl of mosquito-...
July 31, 2016
July 30, 2016 By Stephyn QuirkeStreet Roots News Indigenous peoples’ struggles go unseen by much of the world. IC Magazine’s editor is working to change that. On...
July 29, 2016
July 28, 2016By Kathryn McKenzie, Living GreenSanta Cruz Sentinel Monterey Bishop Richard J. Garcia in June wrote a letter to priests and deacons within the Diocese of...
July 27, 2016
July 27, 2016Chautauqua Institution Ellen Bernstein, a Rabbi and Ecologist, is the founder of the first national Jewish environmental organization - Shomrei Adamah (Keepers...
July 26, 2016
July 25, 2016By Gail DeGeorgeGlobal Sisters Report Her gloved hands deep in buckets of fruit pieces, vegetable peels and other food dreck, Sr. Ana Martinez de Luco flashes a...
July 26, 2016
More than a billion gallons of waste enter the river every day. Can India’s controversial Prime Minister save it? By George BlackThe New YorkerJuly 25, 2016 More than a...
July 25, 2016
One of the largest and oldest black churches in the US warns that black people are disproportionally harmed by global warming and fossil fuel pollution By Oliver MilmanThe...
July 24, 2016
By Lucia Ann Silecchia 10 Liberty University Law Review 371 (2016) http://ssrn.com/abstract=2813256Abstract:     In the years of his still-young papacy,...
July 20, 2016
July 19, 2016 By James HugNational Catholic Reporter The first anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home,”...
July 20, 2016
July 20, 2016By Sam MoweGarrison Institute In their Journey of the Universe project—which includes a film, book, and website—philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and...
July 20, 2016
July 20, 2016By Daksha Rangan The Weather Network For urban dwellers and suburbanites, the changing pace of global weather patterns might only be cause for concern when minor...
July 19, 2016
July 19, 2016By Balan MosesMalay Mail Online KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 — A Tibetan Buddhist leader in exile is changing the face of the ancient religion with a power-packed...
July 15, 2016
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July 14, 2016
July 14, 2016By Delaney WindigoAboriginal Peoples Television Network National News NIAGARA FALLS – For far too long governments ignored the warnings from elders....
July 14, 2016
July 14, 2016By Adelle M. BanksReligion News Service African Methodist Episcopal Church members have joined the call of other religious leaders for action on climate change,...
July 13, 2016
The Munduruku indigenous people are resisting hydroelectric dams on the Tapajós River, a major Amazon tributary. The hydropower, touted as green, would destroy forests...
July 13, 2016
Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change Passed at 50th General Conference Blessed TomorrowJuly 13, 2016 PHILADELPHIA — The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME...
July 12, 2016
July 12, 2016By Mandy EricksonGlobal Sisters Report Colonization has not ended, said speakers at the July 7-10 Sisters of Earth convention: Governments and industries are...
July 11, 2016
The monks, who live on the Canadian fishing island, said the purpose of the mission was to ‘cultivate compassion’ for all human beings By Rachael PellsIndependentJuly 10,...
July 11, 2016
July 11, 2016By Donna SchaperNational Catholic Reporter The prophet Isaiah spoke about the promise of universal peace in this way:  “Then the wolf shall be a guest...
July 11, 2016
July 11, 2016By Sydney PereiraThink Progress It’s been over a year since Pope Francis released his climate encyclical, Laudato Si, which recognized the dangers of human...
July 9, 2016
By Lucia Ann Silecchia 6 Seattle J. of Envtl. L. 1 (2016); CUA Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-6. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2806258Abstract:...
July 7, 2016
July 7, 2016By Ate Hoekstra, Phnom PenhDeutsche Welle Cambodia has one of the world’s highest deforestation rates. But a group of Buddhist monks are stepping up efforts...
July 7, 2016
July 2016 In this issue, you can read the following story: FORE visits VEJ Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, co-directors of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale...
July 7, 2016
July 7, 2016By Carolina TorresMongabay Research finds high, unsafe levels of mercury contamination in Brazil’s Yanomami and Ye’kuana peoples, almost certainly due...
July 6, 2016
July 6, 2016 By William B. DepasupilManila Times The leader of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Antonio Tagle, has called on...
July 5, 2016
July 5, 2016By Mohamed Abdel Raouf Albawaba Business Eid Al-Fitr is an important religious holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, and is...
July 1, 2016
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