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… To get you started on making your own litany of small saints, allow me to introduce you to mine. In the late 1970s, I brought Communion to folks in a now-defunct parish in a low-income St. …

… Speaking from her experiences working with Indigenous communities in Peru who have opposed mining projects on their land, Maryknoll Sr. Patricia Ryan said that the local people "have to … renewable energy are seen in the ongoing campaign by the Apache Stronghold opposing a copper mine in Arizona that would destroy their sacred sites at Oak Flat, and in Nevada where tribes are battling mining projects for lithium and other rare minerals essential for creating batteries and other …

… of Brazil, Amazonia has always been considered a "colony" or a "province": rubber, timber, mining, energy, the last agricultural frontier — a colony to be exploited to the last drop of …

… to illegal land grabbing for ranching, drug crops and land speculation, while unregulated gold mining is also expanding in the Amazon Basin. But despite various pledges by countries to stop …

… policies of the apartheid regime that removed men from their families, sending them to work in mines, fields and factories far from their families, a policy that led to sexual and other …

… Mahatma Gandhi and many more," he wrote. Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in 1931 in a small gold-mining town in what was then the Transvaal. He first followed in his father's footsteps as a …

… giving without charge.   Several Catholic Church organizations have spoken out against illegal mining after gold was discovered in Brazil's Madeira River in November, saying the illicit …

… in our lives. In addition to the  environmental and human rights issues  associated with the mining of resources to create new phones and tablets, unconscious scrolling on our gadgets can …

… Hundreds of illegal mining dredges converged on Brazil's Madeira River in November, creating a floating city near the … support for the miners. In addition, a top government official recently authorized seven mines in protected areas, including Indigenous reserves. Several Catholic Church organizations …

… for generations. The fiction I was beginning to read by authors whose last names resembled mine spoke to me in a way that Flannery O'Conner and Graham Greene never did. When we speak about …

… began in 2006, she worked with Clinton, her U.S. counterpart, who called her "a dear friend of mine." "She is someone who can get a job done without seeking or demanding credit or attention, …

… we shall never be sufficiently grateful to them as Church, but also as humanity [emphasis mine]. They, then, precisely by persevering in the faith of the God of the Covenant, called all, …

… Arizona, the Apache people have  led opposition  to a federal land transfer for a new copper mine that would destroy  Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, widely known as Oak Flat, the Apache sacred site . … that profiles one Indigenous woman in the midst of the fight to protect tribal lands near the mines. In an effort to curb rising fuel prices, President Joe Biden directed the release of 50 …

… the municipality made headlines when it successfully fought back against plans to establish a mining operation in the region in what locals describe as an attempted hostile takeover of their … For Murillo, the experience was a defining moment. "I didn't expect to come back to find a mining company in my town. They came with guns, with machetes. People here were traumatized," … As she speaks, she holds up a rock much like the ones she says residents used to evict the mining operation two years earlier. "We're tired of the current reality. Everyone is tired. ... …

… best known tracks on the album, tells the story of a home nestled in the mountains of a coal mining town — Paradise — in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Paradise, Kentucky, no longer exists. … What becomes of the present, then, when your life is overrun by violences of the past? Coal mining, impoverishment, war, racism, loss of ancestral knowledge: the violences compound each …

… communities steadfastly stand up to illegal activities in their territories, from wildcat gold mining to farming of drug crops. Often the products of those activities are greenwashed on the …

… a "spiritual convoy" to stop the transfer of Oak Flat, an Apache sacred site in Arizona, to a mining company. …

… inconsistent with Catholic teaching on war" such as biological and chemical weapons, land mines, first-strike nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. Beyond such investment …

… basin, this means environmental degradation from extractive industries, including illegal mining and illegal logging, as well forests being cleared for crops, including coca, from which …

… possibility that she "could love and share a great deal with someone whose vote canceled out mine," also said she recognizes that the work of dialogue requires not just letting go of one's …