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10 years ago, the world adopted the Paris Agreement on climate. NCR was there
… say millions more people will be exposed to more extreme storms, droughts, heatwaves, flooding and wildfires. Today, temperatures are tracking toward 2.3 C on the low end by the end …
Guadalupe pilgrims flood Mexico City as U.S. parishes join hemisphere-wide celebration
As Dec. 12 approaches, millions of pilgrims are converging on the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, one of the most visited Marian shrines in the world. The feast honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe — celebrated across the Americas and in the Philippines — is again drawing crowds far beyond Mexico's borders. Authorities in Mexico City expect between 10 and 12 million pilgrims in the days…
COP30 drew record Indigenous participation — but were their voices heard?
… so we can't predict when to plant," he said, adding the massive storms have led to severe flooding of cropfields and entire villages. A veteran of seven U.N. climate summits, Shahin said …
Boston Archdiocese wants ICE message gone from parish's outdoor Nativity scene
… a 1,150% increase in assaults on ICE officers. Hundreds of people from across the country also flooded t he parish Facebook group page with angry comments while parishioners defended the …
The story behind the young woman who wept while hugging Pope Leo in Beirut
… "Yes," as she wept profusely. "Standing in front of the pope, memories of this awful explosion flooded back. The cross was the same I held during the eight operations I underwent to repair the …
UN climate summit in the Amazon falls short on fossil fuel phaseout plan
… vulnerable to catastrophic climate impacts like more extreme storms, droughts, wildfires and flooding. "To them, climate change is not a distant threat, and to ignore these people is to deny …
ChatGPT, the Antichrist and the Jubilee of Hope
… In addition, AI is disrupting psychology, journalism and the arts, triggering mental illness, flooding cyberspace with "slop," threatening privacy through surveillance, reinforcing biases and …
Urging concrete actions, Pope Leo XIV calls out 'failing' political will on climate change
… are failing in their response to global warming and that God's creation "is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat." In a video message played for religious leaders … to deadly heat, a warming atmosphere leads to more frequent and deadly extreme weather such as flooding, droughts, violent downpours and more powerful hurricanes. Leo said there's still time …
Amid ICE raids, Chicago priests support immigrants with a whistle and a rosary
… "She's in a detention center in Indiana now," the woman said, her eyes distant. The memory floods back in fragments: the chaos, the fear, the voices rising above the noise. "I heard other …
Caritas leader Q&A: 'The golden age of aid' is over
… billion, to help developing countries adapt to climate impacts — like more extreme storms and flooding, longer heat waves and droughts and rising seas. The report cited declining …
For 30 years, leaders have promised climate action. The Earth has waited in vain.
… double as emergency shelters, offering refuge to families displaced by repeated cyclones and floods. Once, they prepared for one major storm a year; now, extreme weather arrives in … the rains that no longer come. When they do arrive, they often come in destructive bursts that flood roads and wash away the very crops families prayed for. …
Reaching for a 'Happy Day': Noah's ark goes off-Broadway
… and composer Donald Lawrence are presenting their own answer. Where the biblical story of the flood centers God's choices, Cooper's " Oh Happy Day! " instead centers Noah, finding in his … want to be there, either, but three cheerful singing angels have revealed to him that a flood is coming, and if he doesn't convince his father, sister and young nephew to get in a boat …
'We are asking the world to act': African women on frontlines of climate change demand justice at COP30
… north, drought has forced entire pastoralist communities into displacement camps. In the west, flooding along Lake Victoria has submerged homes and farmland. In both places, women bear the … you go to fetch water, men follow you. At night, we fear being attacked." In Budalang'i, a flood-prone area along the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, 16-year-old Lilian Atieno was displaced after floods destroyed her family's home. In the camp, she was exploited by an older man who offered …
Inside the conclave, Part 2: The surprising final moves toward an American pope
… and Herzegovina.' He laughed and said yes." And then the moment came — the central loggia, the flood of light, the sea of faces in St. Peter's Square. By protocol, Puljić stood beside him, as …
Ahead of COP30, a Kenyan village turns to bamboo and faith to fight climate change
… climate summit to be held in the Amazon. The story unfolding here, where families displaced by flooding are experimenting with bamboo to protect their homes and farms, shows what is at stake. … as floodwaters return season after season. "I lost my fishing business because of the floods, and then I lost my maize," said Odhiambo Okoth, a father of five. "Now I depend on relief … villages, an area with a population of about 67,000 residents. In response to repeated flooding, UNEP launched the Bunyala South Riverbank Restoration Project, introducing bamboo …
This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it at risk
… alone, cempasuchil producers said they lost up to half their flower crop from heavy rains and flooding. "This year, we lost a lot. We struggled to even grow the cempasuchil. There were … they say that they've been dealt a heavy blow for consecutive years as heavy rains, drought, floods and other climate shifts have made it increasingly difficult to keep their crops alive. … have the genetic diversity needed to take on climate change." If more climate events, like the floods that roiled producers wipe out an entire crop, Soto said the bank will make seeds …
Faith-based disaster relief groups mobilize to respond to Hurricane Melissa
… to respond. Melissa, a Category 5 storm, has already rolled over Jamaica and Cuba and caused flooding and storm surges across the Caribbean, killing 20 people in Haiti, according to The New … said in a statement. "We are deeply concerned about the continuous rains and the extent of the flooding, preventing access to families left stranded in vulnerable regions." Send Relief, a …
On Mount of Olives where Jesus prayed, monks and nuns keep harvesting olives
… the biblical story of the dove that brought one back to Noah's Ark to signify the end of the flood. "The land is a gift and the sign of a divine presence," said the Fr. Diego Dalla Gassa, a …
Prevost's Peru was a Vatican II laboratory of church renewal
… 1983, just over a year before Prevost's arrival, the region of Chulucanas was hit by serious floods that worsened the area's already poor economy. McNabb recalled rescue missions led by …
Vatican pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 28%
… more people to dangerous climate impacts like more extreme heat waves, storms, and increased flooding and wildfires. The latest updated targets were due ahead of COP30, the U.N. climate …