U.N. climate summit

Pope says a revised environmental encyclical will be released Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi

By Nicole Winfield — August 30, 2023
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Francis recently revealed he was writing a “second part” to the document “to address current problems.”

Faith groups increasingly join fight against climate change

By Luis Andres Henao and Jessie Wardarski — November 2, 2021
POINTE-AUX-CHENES, Louisiana (AP) — On a boat ride along a bayou that shares the name of his Native American tribe, Donald Dardar points to a cross marking his ancestors’ south Louisiana burial ground — a place he fears will disappear. He points to the partly submerged stumps of oak trees killed by salt water on […]

Pope: May ‘cry of the Earth’ be heard at UN climate summit

By Associated Press — November 1, 2021
He addressed a crowd in St. Peter’s Square and asked them to pray so that the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor could be heard by the participants of the summit in Glasgow.

People of faith know what must be done on climate change

By John L. McCullough and Rudelmar Bueno de Faria — September 20, 2019
(RNS) — Noah’s prophetic witness called on his community to heed the darkening skies and take action to save their world before it was too late. 
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