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… even to common illnesses. And now a new threat is on the horizon. The Toronto-based Belo Sun Mining Corp. is planning a large gold mine on some 600 square miles of land near the Belo Monte Dam, where illegal gold miners have … an environmental risk, in the wake of two disastrous collapses of mine tailings dams at other mines in Brazil in 2015 and 2019. Meanwhile, some of the fisher families displaced by the Belo …

… on their lands, as well as from dams that disrupt their traditional fishing practices and mines that pollute the water. Residents of Bom Jardim, a quilombo about an hour by road from … dos Santos Clemente, 22, of the Quilombo Boa Vista. Her community is affected by runoff from mining, she said. Others have seen fishing grounds wiped out by dam construction, and several are …

… son more than a year ago, when he and some friends left the village of Hiowa to seek work in a mine. A few months later, most of the group returned, but not her son. "I don't know where he … park, with tourism jobs that would offer young people an alternative to working in the mines or on Brazilian ranches. He and others hope that stricter protection for the mountains, …

… the water and fish with the mercury they use to extract the precious metal, he said. "Gold mining is a disease, and it creates disease" with the mercury, oil and gasoline used in pump … Vatican, notes that isolated groups are at particular risk from industrial activities such as mining, logging, large-scale agriculture; construction of dams and roads; and drug traffickers … indigenous people into national society and has proposed opening up indigenous lands for mining and agriculture. Church workers fear that could result in more invasion of areas inhabited …

… issues that most affect them. Those topics  –  ranging from threats from oil production and mining to alcohol and drug addiction and domestic violence  –  were included in the synod working …

… is usually, "Right now?" I don't do well with interruptions most of the time. A friend of mine often says that our real mission is the interruption, that everything else is just work. I …

… Seitz said. "What a joy to be able to walk back onto U.S. soil with this little girl's hand in mine. It gave one a real feeling of elation." The family will be in custody for a short time and …

… said Congo's bishops had repeatedly denounced the "inhuman conditions" imposed by foreign mining companies, which were "destroying the family, youth, the environment and communications" … in large parts of the country. However, he warned it was also dangerous to criticize mining operations, "since you don't know what will happen if you do." …

… a woman president next year is that several women are in the race, rather than just one. Mehri mines data about job searches — and a primary process is a bit like an extended job search — that …

… following. In stating that he must decrease and Jesus increase, John explains, "So this joy of mine has been made complete." John's actions are as natural and rightly ordered as the graceful …

… me, you are wasting our time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." To walk with the marginalized can be scary; it is where …

… very current critique of surveillance capitalism, which is the latest phase of neoliberal data mining of one's personal experience. Using liberation theology, Lakeland described how we might develop a spiritual resistance to what he sees as an especially sinister form of data mining. And with that, the CTSA presidency was turned over the Maria Pilar Aquino, the first …

… flowers from your garden (or from the grocer's flower department, if your thumb is as brown as mine) is a nice touch. A bright balloon or a colorful card to leave behind as a pledge of your … you visit. Making the decision to find assisted living was especially painful for a friend of mine. She not only had to give up her home; she had to leave the dog who had long been her …

… I once asked a friend of mine when she had gotten married. She said, "We were married from the moment we decided that we …

… "want care and compassion and love and a hand to lead them out of the maze. Does yours? Does mine? I think not." The existential threat against which West sets his main character in this …

… established this practice to benefit coal companies in the late 19th century who wanted to mine below wide swaths of land without purchasing them outright. Gas-drilling companies went on a … to revive their ailing economy. The county had long depended on small-scale farming, coal mining, steel production and the industries that supported those enterprises. Coal and steel … environmental degradation. Local streams run orange today with sulfur and iron from abandoned mine drainage that render them inhospitable to fish and animals. That same drainage threatened …

… to retain or loose sins , I will declare a jubilee . Unlike the Jubilee of the Year 2000, mine would be a bit more Old Testament and I'd encourage folks to literally forgive financial … Despite the best efforts of my ego, I know I'm pretending. The chair of St. Peter is not mine, nor do I lay claim to it. When I hand my daughter that tiara, I recall that my work in the …

… 20, we hear of the mother of James and John asking Jesus to "Command that these two sons of mine sit, one at your right and the other at your left, in your kingdom." That this was not …

… from members of the church in El Salvador were instrumental in passing a law banning metal mining in 2017, making the small Central American country the first in the world to outlaw the industry. The local church opposed metal mining because of the potential to harm El Salvador's dwindling supply of clean water, and the …

… been condemned and abandoned because of a 1962 underground fire that broke out in a coal mining tunnel. The fire still smolders today. [Dan Morris-Young is NCR West Coast correspondent.] …