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… Service … Bishop Stephen Nyodho Ador Majwok of Malakal, South Sudan, called for support as floods continued to devastate his diocese, creating a complex web of challenges. Most areas of … higher grounds where they can find safety. Some have moved to neighboring towns. The country's flood emergency is being linked to climate change, as in other East African nations, where … need shelter, food and medicines," said Majwok. The last time the region experienced similar flooding was in 1964, he said, but it did not reach this level. Although aid agencies have been …

… participants formed a camp alongside the Rio Grande. The camp became infested with snakes, was flooded out and became controlled by organized crime. Camp residents became so desperate that …

… struggled to manage her colic and gastritis. She noted that drought in the summer and heavy flooding during hurricane season had become a feature of life. This precarity came full circle …

… Pat Marrin … “The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and buffeted the house” (Matthew 7:24). Is 26:1-6; Matt 7:21 Anyone …

… by resurrecting, through storytelling, the lives of those lost during the AIDS/HIV crisis and flooding a light of hope into the chasm of despair. Hidden Mercy , published by Broadleaf Books …

… By stripping the trees, the loggers leave communities at greater risk of more severe flooding — all in the name of "green" energy. When I spoke to Díaz this week, he had some … Miller at Religion News Service. … Here's some of what's new in other climate news: … Severe flooding and landslides, possibly exacerbated by summer wildfires, left some 18,000 people …

… major disappointment" for communities already suffering from increased drought, heatwaves and flooding, said Neil Thorns, director of advocacy for CAFOD, the overseas development agency of … for Caritas Zambia. "People have lost their farmlands and livelihoods to drought and floods, yet we have contributed the least to this crisis. It is crucial to keep 1.5 C alive."  …

… of climate change on the poor, who could be forced to flee their homes due to droughts and floods. But Francis added that “unless our hope translates into decisions and concrete gestures …

… effects of climate change that we are witnessing today in the form of perennial droughts, floods, food insecurity, water-borne diseases and respiratory infections will be reduced to …

… Meanwhile, deaths due to climate change are increasing from drought, famine, disease and flooding, most perilously for the poor and vulnerable. Yet U.S. bishops continue to ignore this …

… will rise again. Together.  Then the next generation, the one now watching the fires and the floods, watching the senseless "War of Congressional Houses Without a Conscience" doing nothing to stop the fires and the floods, may realize that their parents' generation never said a thing about it. Then, when they …

… the country's population depends. In 2017, powerful rainstorms triggered major landslides and flooding near the capital of Freetown, leaving more than 1,100 people dead or missing. Sowa's …

… field canals and built an elevated greenhouse to save their plants and medicinal herbs from flooding. "It's saving what we know that's going to be destroyed from both the change of the heat …

… Oct. 27. The pope also said he was praying for Vietnam, which was recently hit with widespread flooding, causing thousands to evacuate their homes. "My prayer and my thoughts go to the many … he said. He also remembered the people of Sicily, who have been devastated by flash flooding triggered by a powerful storm system, killing two people. Before praying …

… generations," the pope said after the Angelus on Sunday. He also called attention to recent flooding that has decimated parts of the Philippines and the ongoing suffering in Haiti caused by …

… waves have killed hundreds, and droughts threaten some parts of the country, while storms, floods and avalanches tear through others. These manifestations of the climate crisis continue to …

… to the faithful supporting the urgency for action to fight man-made climate change.  After floods in which people in New York have drowned in their homes, and as California residents … slowing the earth's heat-up now will prevent more catastrophe — deadly heat waves and shocking floods, crop failures, water shortage, ecological collapse. This would be a good time to hear …

… communities or countries receive compensation for climate impacts, such as droughts and flooding, they've already suffered. "If you live on a Pacific island that is now sinking beneath …

… Virginia, are no strangers to the effects of climate change. In White Sulphur Springs, a flash flood hit on June 23, 2016, leaving a sickening amount of devastation. Twenty-three people lost … roads and bridges disappeared. According to a story in The Washington Post a year later, the flood was referred to as a "1,000-year flood." In Huntington just this past summer, flooding caused extensive street, building and viaduct damage. Some of Marshall University's …

… of families are grieving the lives of loved ones lost to COVID-19. Ferocious fires and floods are erupting with unexpected fury. And the profound wounds of clergy sexual abuse and …