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… Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston is asking for prayers after flash floods devastated communities in Ohio County June 14 leaving eight people dead, including a … still missing. "I ask you to join me in prayer for all those affected by the devastating flash flood that occurred on Saturday in Ohio County," Brennan said in a statement. "We pray especially …

… was the warmest year on record , with extreme wildfires devastating the Mediterranean, monsoon flooding displacing millions in Pakistan and entire low-lying nations contemplating full-scale … In the United States, Black and Latino communities are significantly more likely to live in flood-prone zones, a University of Arizona study found. Under President Donald Trump's first …

… technologies have been eliminated. Money to prepare communities for heat waves, storms and flooding has been cut. Even the National Weather Service has seen its staff decimated, as if …

… power, and indifference. We continue to experience the destructive force of natural disasters, floods, fires and heat waves and the consequent suffering of people, animals and ecosystems.  …

… "He's a man who could ride a horse up into the hills, who could wear rubber boots during a flood. But when it came to the liturgy, especially at 8 p.m. Mass in the cathedral, he was always … rice and cane farming some 480 miles north of Lima. He waded into the mud left by catastrophic floods — with a photo of him standing in flood waters going viral after he was elected pope. He mobilized a diocesan response to a wave of …

… continue to remain empty words. No surprise, climate disasters also continue to worsen. Mega floods, mega wildfires, mega droughts, mega hurricanes, mega heat waves. Mega everything. More …

… to help clean up the littered banks of the Cumberland River. Some of the debris was from past floods like the one that devastated the region in 2022. Going forward, that type of environmental …

… sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice loss and glacier retreat. Extreme weather events including floods, droughts and fire are becoming more frequent and destructive. In America, the new Trump …

… members really could have sustained thousands of animals for months, floating above a global flood that drowned everyone else in the wicked world. "That's what we wanted to do through many … the cross on the ark's large door, which analogizes that just as the wicked perished in the flood, those without Christ face eternal hellfire. And there are more parallels to 1925. Bryan …

… canal. The images of then-Bishop Robert Francis Prevost in the muddy aftermath of severe flooding in northern Peru in 2023 offer a glance at a man the world now knows as Pope Leo XIV. … or USAID. In the middle of the relief effort was Prevost. The bishop of Chiclayo waded through flooded streets as he toured damage in flooded parts of Íllimo, one of the small towns devastated … the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor." The 2023 flood was the final weather-related disaster to hit northwest Peru during Prevost's time in …

… that Vatican officials added to the colored smoke as an auxiliary measure. Thousands had flooded the square by the time the Senior Deacon of the College of Cardinals, Jorge Medina …

… who have contributed least to the problem. More extreme weather events, drought, wildfire, flooding, famine and disease are attributable to climate change that is primarily driven by …

… with tireless travels through the diocese, especially in times of crisis such as catastrophic flooding. "Peru was where he learned to be a priest," Fr. Jorge Majail, spokesman for the Order … working in difficult situations; a picture of him wearing rubber boots, while ministering in a flood zone, made the rounds on social media. That pastoral work has not been forgotten in a country where the official response to the COVID-19 pandemic and catastrophic floods in 2017 were lacking. "The bishop at the time … taught us that we can move things forward …

… of the church's response to the catastrophic 2017 El Niño Costero, which brought record flooding, destroyed homes and cut off entire communities from vital resources. "Bishop Prevost … hearts of Chiclayo," Sesa, who worked in Caritas, added. "Because he was always there — in the floods, the pandemic, the celebrations, and the sorrows. A bishop of the people. A true shepherd." …

… corn my husband puts out. They are our sweethearts, and a pang of worry for their well-being floods through me.  Then, our neighbor's tiger cat with half an ear missing peers apprehensively …

… awe of the historic moment. "I did not expect this," Wade said, her eyes fixed on the crowds flooding St. Peter's Square.  She said she didn't know a lot about each of the front-runners for …

… giant trees and sturdy buildings. Lush green earth turns to desert! The sky opens its flood gates, drowning the earth and all upon it. Mother Earth, choked with dust, floodwaters and … Pakistan is like looking back upon utter devastation. Two peak instances stand out for me: the floods of 2010 and 2022.  In September 2022, I stood on a road outside Dadu, in Sindh Province, … could see. Right to the horizon was a massive lake stretching in all directions. Seeing these floods of biblical proportions and the scenes of people on the move setting up their make-shift …

… elect a successor to Francis will be the first decidedly in the social media age, opening the flood gates of commentary — both insightful and comedic.  Gen Z, the first generation made …

… their severity. They are as real as thousands of homes destroyed by fire in Los Angeles or a flooded western North Carolina. Without emotion, the relentless heat withers crops in the fields, the atmospheric rivers produce floods that scour hillsides and homes. As economies buckle under the weight of disasters, …

… Love was in Padua, Italy, visiting the burial site of St. Luke, when the city was suddenly flooded with the sound of church bells ringing. It was only when Love checked her phone that she …