environment
Opposition to Amazon synod spurs new right-wing coalition in Brazil
By Eduardo Campos Lima — October 3, 2019
SÃO PAULO (RNS) — Its opposition to the Pan-Amazon synod's goals has given a group of conservative Catholic organizations new life as a wedge of the Brazilian president's populist base.
Visiting Thailand, Pope Francis to champion the poor and the environment
By Claire Giangravé — September 27, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As Francis continues to promote the care of creation, he aims to connect with a broader audience than the country's tiny Catholic community.
To save the planet, we need faith, ethics, science and economics
By Thomas Reese — September 25, 2019
(RNS) — Responding to climate change requires a moral vision that puts the poor and future generations on an equal footing with ourselves.
New cardinals: The men are the message
By Thomas Reese — September 12, 2019
(RNS) — By making these men cardinals, the pope is handing them megaphones.
Pope encourages vast crowds in Madagascar in fight against poverty, climate threat
By Claire Giangravé — September 9, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The pope's optimistic message of peace and faith has been balanced by the reality of the challenges Africa faces.
Pope Francis to address conflict, climate in Africa in three-country visit
By Claire Giangravé — September 3, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A top Vatican official described Africa as 'a laboratory for integral development' — a term that in this papacy refers to a sustainable society based on precepts in a 2015 papal encyclical on the environment.
Understanding Christians’ climate views can lead to better conversations about the environment
By Emma Frances Bloomfield — August 6, 2019
(The Conversation) — Because Christians incorporate the environment into their faith in a variety of ways, they provide important insights into how to talk about climate change with a variety of audiences.
Maggots may be a deus ex machina to save us from global warming
By Thomas Reese — July 10, 2019
(RNS) — The larvae of the black soldier fly not only help eliminate greenhouse gases, they become protein that, when roasted, can be used as feed for animals.
UCC General Synod endorses Green New Deal
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 2, 2019
(RNS) — By the denomination’s reckoning, that makes it the first Christian body to endorse the environmental protection legislation sponsored in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Urban oil well to be shut down, cleaned up after pressure from LA faith activists
By Bob Smietana — June 4, 2019
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The city of Los Angeles gave AllenCo three years to clean up an urban oil well in Los Angeles. The move comes after years of activism by local faith-based groups, who say the neighborhood well was a nuisance.
New documentary chronicles a grass roots Catholic ‘magisterium’
By Michael McKinley — December 24, 2018
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Water pollution in Iraq threatens Mandaean religious rites
By Philip Issa — October 18, 2018
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's soaring water pollution is threatening the religious rites of its tight-knit Mandaean community, already devastated by 15 years of war that has also affected the country's other minority sects.
It is almost too late to save our planet
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 12, 2018
Our civilization is in deep ___________. Noah would have understood.
Irish bishops announce divestment from fossil fuels ahead of the pope’s visit
By Christine A. Scheller — August 25, 2018
DUBLIN (RNS) — The move comes in response to Francis’ 2015 environmental encyclical, “Laudato Si,” and follows the introduction of a bill in the Irish Parliament requiring the country’s sovereign wealth fund to divest from all fossil fuels.
Clergy divided as Kenya moves to save forest, evict 40,000 settlers
By Fredrick Nzwili — August 15, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Churches, schools and crops have been burned in a clearing process that government officials say will save the main water supply.
