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Africa Climate Week hears calls for united African voice ahead of COP27
… emissions, Africa faces a disproportionate level of devastating climate impacts, among them biodiversity loss, water shortages, reduced food production, and loss of lives and livelihoods, …
Sep 15, 2022
Amazon Catholic leaders: Isolated Indigenous peoples must be protected
… of years disappears. That's a wake-up call to humanity that the process of extinction of biodiversity is followed by the process of extinction of human beings," José Gregorio Diaz … pressures. In Ecuador, the Tagaeri and Taromenane, two isolated peoples living in the highly biodiverse Yasuni National Park, are increasingly threatened by activities related to oil …
Sep 13, 2022
Threatening all creation, nuclear weapons are a climate justice issue, too
… summits may unite the human family in decisively addressing the twin crises of climate and biodiversity loss." In addition to the pope's suggestions, as I reflect on what to focus my …
Sep 8, 2022
Laudato Si' message gets added attention as Season of Creation opens
… the cry of the earth," Orzechowski said. "The issue of climate justice and the issue of the biodiversity crisis are among the most urgent and significant moral issues facing us as a church …
Sep 6, 2022
With floods and fires raging, Season of Creation invites Christians to listen to nature's cries
… it was only natural for the Missionary Society of St. Columban to relaunch its podcast on biodiversity loss. The six-episode season follows the 2019 debut of the "Jubilee for the Earth: Biodiversity and Our Sacred Story" podcast , and looks at the threats facing ecosystems and …
Sep 1, 2022
People must choose: Help grow garden of life or desert of death, pope says
… he said. He asked people to pray that the upcoming U.N. gatherings on climate and biodiversity "unite the human family in decisively addressing the twin crises of climate and biodiversity loss." The pope referred specifically to the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference …
Aug 31, 2022
Indianapolis Catholic is leading pope's global plan to care for the earth
… this same period, we have witnessed firsthand the increasing effects of climate change and biodiversity loss — more intense storm events and flooding, wildfires and record temperatures," …
Aug 27, 2022
More than a day at the beach: Piping plover volunteers work to save a species
… supported by the Vatican and numerous Catholic organizations that see protecting the planet's biodiversity in parallel with reining in global warming. In his encyclical " Laudato Si' , on … of Assisi but Pope Francis as well. In Laudato Si' Francis calls upon humanity to respect biodiversity. "It is not enough to think of different species merely as potential resources to be …
Aug 20, 2022
With Catholic backing, African communities press against land grabs by global ag firms
… was damaging "to Africa's food systems, to our environment, our soils, lands and water, our biodiversity" and health. "Land grabs push people off the land, fueling conflicts and provoking … land grabbing" and its "negative impact" on local communities. Rita Uwaka, forest and biodiversity program coordinator at Friends of the Earth Africa, was among the delegates that …
Aug 11, 2022
Mercy volunteers learn to live gently with creation in Vermont
… farm property and uploaded the data into the iNaturalist app to build greater awareness of the biodiversity on the land. For Chris Thompson, establishing relationships with neighbors and rural …
Aug 9, 2022