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… "Jesus said, 'Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me,'" she said, and called Kacsmaryk's decision "contrary to man's law and …

… authors Robin Broad and John Cavanagh follow grassroots opposition to opening a polluting gold mine , from the hills of El Salvador, to the halls of the World Bank, to a similarly threatened …

… In 2009, a grassroots group working to stop a Canadian company from opening a gold mine in central El Salvador was chosen to receive a human rights award in Washington, D.C. A few … water defenders of El Salvador's central Cabañas department to keep Canadian-based Pacific Rim Mining Corp. from opening a gold mine in their area. Not only did they want to block the mine, …

… into the third generation of coal miners in Pennsylvania's coal country, Trumka worked in the mines himself, but went to college and law school. By 1982, he had ascended to the presidency of the United Mine Workers at the age of 33. Trumka led a successful eight-month strike against the Pittston …

… of the shift to clean energy on communities that have long been reliant economically on the mining, extraction and refining of fossil fuels. Since 2016, the newly renamed Laudato Si' … but a near-constant threat to life, said Daniela Andrade, a member of the Churches and Mining Network and the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM). She said that in the Peruvian …

… at The Guardian. California's push to switch to all-electric vehicles will mean more mining of metals like lithium that are used in batteries, thus threatening to "trade one …

… of local communities against megaprojects that compete with them for water and land ," such as mining and industrial agriculture. Water is scarce in the Gran Chaco zone, and vast areas have … to the southeast and center-west. "There are several different realities to be mapped, from mining and monoculture projects with intensive water use to big cities with more than 1 million …

… the region, including deforestation, drug trafficking, pollution and contamination caused by mining industries. In his letter, Hummes reiterated those issues and their consequences, …

… of creatively ignoring the rubrics, but finding the true spirit of the liturgical reform by mining the riches of the Word of God which have now been made available both in the vastly …

… World and the Jug," Ellison proclaimed definitively that Wright "was no spiritual father of mine," thus making it clear: It was not literary patriarchy that connected him and the author of …

… a similar move. The quest for fuel for electric vehicles is spurring a boom in lithium mining, which is encroaching on lands sacred to Native Americans in Arizona. Maya L. Kapoor has …

… also holds an enormous lithium deposit. Now, exploratory work by Australian company Hawkstone Mining threatens those places, and with them, the religious practices of the Hualapai and other … the springs it protects. In the next few years, Hawkstone hopes to break ground on an open-pit mine and dig an underground slurry to pipe the ore about 50 miles to a plant in Kingman, Arizona, …

… Fitzpatrick, "my community might have something your community needs, or yours something that mine might need. There's a learning on both sides." Ideas emerging from previous get-togethers …

… there. And church leaders have aligned with Indigenous communities in opposing projects for mining lithium, a key material in electric vehicle batteries. "Electric cars moved with lithium batteries are not 'clean.' We've been destroyed [by mining] for 500 years," Rosa del Valle Aráoz, a Catholic activist and member of the Churches and … A Celebration and Reflections on International Solidarity in El Salvador's Victory over Mining," will take place at 7 p.m., Eastern Time, and is hosted by the Institute for Policy …

… Francis wants to support and open his arms to the LGBTQ community and how much they put land mines in his path to be able to do it," he added. Concerning the CDF's ban on the blessing of …

… he said, causing hardship for poor farmers. "The business now for drug cartels is extorting mines that we have in Guerrero (state) and extorting budgets of municipal governments," said …

… church leaders in Argentina are speaking out against several high-impact projects involving mining, fossil fuels and industrial use of water in the South American country. Although they say … — which is a key component of batteries in "green" vehicles, such as electric cars — is mined from beneath salt deposits on a high Andean plain spanning parts of the three countries. …

… to protect their small, precious country and its imperilled waters from large-scale metal mining. Then, moderator Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada will bring in others for their …

… exercised with regard to countries where water sources are drying up, and how the revenue from mining of minerals such as cobalt and lithium could benefit the local populations. Congo is rich … Congolese government's weakness and inability to control or evolve a strategic vision for its mining, forestry, water, energy, land and agricultural resources. The statement also noted the …

… tens of millions of people annually — a figure that is expected to balloon by midcentury. Mining and deforestation have further forced Indigenous people from their ancestral lands, often …