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… motivator in their choice of candidates.  Matthew 25 — "whatever you do for these the least of mine" — is still competing with America's consumer capitalism as a generator of values. Whether …

… protecting the rainforest homelands of dozens of Indigenous nations from further mining, drilling and deforestation using grassroots organizing, advocacy, legal defense and … said the consequences of the rain forest's continued destruction — through deforestation, mining and other extractive industries — would prove dire for humanity and the entire planet. "If …

… extractive industries, such as oil production, which foul rivers and forests with spills, and mining, which is increasing in some countries as demand increases for minerals associated with … less harmful to the Amazon — stances reflecting the work of the ecumenical  Churches and Mining Network . On at least one issue, however, the synod for the Amazon failed to move the … for grassroots leaders who speak out publicly against illegal activities — around logging, mining, hunting and fishing, as well as drug trafficking and land grabbing — in their …

… bridge had been blown up. Along the way, he met an elderly woman who warned him about land mines ahead. "She said, 'Don't go there.' " He recalled, "If I hadn't been told that, I might … about it, though I do feel a lot of pain and grievance. I do think about close friends of mine who have died. I have lots of pain, but no, I don't feel hatred for them." That sense of …

… the former president declaring the cardinal a "great gentleman" and a "great friend of mine." He also gave a nod to an implicit quid pro quo to paying attention to what his eminence …

… at different times throughout his own spiritual journey, Francis  said : "I have done what is mine to do; may Christ show you what is yours." At the heart of his own vocation was the … Christ calls each of us to follow him in distinct ways. Christ continues to show me what is mine to do, and I pray that Christ show you what is yours as well. …

… he said. Walz cited  Mathew 25:40 ("Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me") during his remarks. Abortion rights, Walz said, "is what's on everyone's …

… his grown daughters. He was 65. Over a quarter century,  Neil's storied path crossed with mine in our Capitol Hill neighborhood — at St. Peter's Catholic Church, where he was cherished as …

… the  Franciscan Center in Baltimore, I meet women and men who live a very different life from mine. They join the food line to get a good meal. I am holding the "clicker" that counts them, … to develop some new habits. Marie's background and life experience are so different from mine, but I think she and God are teaching me a lesson in being vulnerable to love, with the …

… shot dead as he was leaving Mass. He had been receiving threats from someone linked to a local mining operation that López's organization had been protesting over pollution in the Guapinol and …

… The 46-year-old husband and father of two recently had been working to shut down an iron oxide mine in a national park that was said to be contaminating two rivers in the area and threatening …

… heart. Somehow those poppies remind him of it. It's a poem in a picture in a happiness that is mine too — well, when I remember to say thank you. Thank you, Jesus. …

… said López had recently received threats from a gang member, a Honduran businessperson and a mining company representative. A member of the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and … Goods in Tocoa, López had advocated against the harmful impacts of an open-pit iron oxide mine. His group had  protested that the mine was polluting the Guapinol and San Pedro rivers, … Ruiz wrote too that López knew of the risks. "You knew very well that the extractivist and mining system is a system that kills and destroys the whole world, along with the corruption of …

… The machines are operated by illegal miners connected to large drug trafficking gangs. Illegal mining has been severely impacting the region and the local communities, but the authorities …

… inmate who died in her cell as her meal trays piled up. A particular interest and specialty of mine has been examining the failing of large institutions, primarily governmental and political …

… Court Sept. 11 to protect their sacred site at Oak Flat, Arizona, from destruction by a copper mining giant after a federal appeals court rejected their request. Oak Flat in Tonto National … U.S. Forest Service to swap the land for other sites with Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company, and lifted a mining ban on Oak Flat. An environmental impact report mandated by the National Environmental …

… sensibilities were much, much better," Mel said, giving Indigenous forest care as an example. Mining has widened the country's economic divide and pitted the haves against the have-nots. "We …

… of which all living things are made, or just "stuff" as one Bible scholar who is a friend of mine puts it — matter and energy. God the potter becomes one with the clay. In Acts, Peter tells …

… permanently protecting the rainforest homelands of dozens of Indigenous nations from further mining, drilling, and deforestation using grassroots organizing, advocacy, legal defense, and …

… agencies, she said. "Through my story I would like to show that even on a difficult path like mine, that can seem like a giant wall of steel, doing the right thing can get you even further …