January 2017 News

January 31, 2017
January 31, 2017By Fredrick NzwiliReligion News Service MATUU, Kenya (RNS) When her pantry runs dry, Agnes Mwikali walks down a dusty road to the local Roman Catholic Church...
January 27, 2017
January 27, 2017By Donna SchaperNational Catholic Reporter When exclamatory news alerts like this one appear in our inbox, most of us want out of the box: BREAKING NEWS ALERT...
January 27, 2017
January 27, 2017By Kyle LemleSpiritual Ecology Fellowship In the time when the nuns sing before the birds, the sun waits patiently as if it would not come at all. Silence...
January 25, 2017
January 25, 2017Native News Online WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, January 24, 2017, President Trump signed five executive actions, two of which will advance construction of...
January 25, 2017
January 25, 2017By Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News ServiceNational Catholic Reporter President Trump’s executive orders advancing the construction of...
January 24, 2017
By Stephanie WoodardYES! MagazineJanuary 24, 2017 YES! Special Report People from more than 300 tribes traveled to the North Dakota plains to pray and march in solidarity...
January 22, 2017
January 21, 2017By Robert Duncan, Catholic News ServiceNational Catholic Reporter Vatican City - In a craftsman’s workshop on the edge of Rome’s Campo Verano...
January 20, 2017
January 19, 2017By Elizabeth Eisenstadt EvansGlobal Sisters Report For decades — whether they are raising heritage chickens, running an organic farm that provides food...
January 17, 2017
January 16, 2017teleSUR Several Native American women spoke with teleSUR about their role in the protests against the oil project in North Dakota. The actions and protests...
January 13, 2017
January 12, 2017By Thomas ReeseNational Catholic Reporter One of the greatest liturgical challenges of the church in the 21st century is to figure out how to do liturgy in a...
January 11, 2017
January 10, 2017By Fred KruppEnvironmental Defense Fund It was one of those rare moments in life that crystallize your sense of purpose, at a most critical time. We were in...
January 11, 2017
By permanently protecting an area rich in indigenous cultural history, Obama has shown that some things are worth more than money. By Jacqueline KeelerNation of ChangeJanuary...
January 10, 2017
January 9, 2017By Sam LevinThe Guardian The Two Rivers camp, protesting the Trans-Pecos pipeline, is the latest sign that the Standing Rock movement is inspiring indigenous-...
January 7, 2017
NGO Acción Ecológica responds to the government’s attempt to close the organization down By David HillThe GuardianJanuary 7, 2017 Members of one of Latin...
January 6, 2017
January 6, 2017By Eliana GarzónMongabay Summary: * The Amazon Indigenous REDD+ (RIA) initiative led in Colombia by the indigenous organization OPIAC is being...
January 4, 2017
January 4, 2017By Chris BentleyWCAI – NPR for the Cape, the Coast, and the Islands The Koutoubia Mosque is one of the iconic landmarks of Marrakech’s old city....
January 2, 2017
January 2, 2017By Ellen DauwerGlobal Sisters Report When I entered religious life almost 40 years ago, living singly was not one of my expectations. Having grown up in a...