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Catholic Bishops call for 'full strength' of church to fight gun violence
… social teaching and preaching about gun safety in church. He also suggested that bishops could divest church resources from companies involved in gun manufacturing, just as they have with …
EarthBeat Weekly: 11,224 scientists 'telling it like it is'
… signs, including declines in birth rates, reduced forest loss in some regions, increased divestment in fossil fuels and growing reliance on renewable energy. This week on EarthBeat, we …
What the US bishops can learn from the Amazon synod
… such a disastrous impact on the environment and indigenous peoples? Are the bishops willing to divest extractive industries from church portfolios as recommended by the synod? Can the U.S. …
Four factors driving pace, scale of climate action in U.S. dioceses
… the church itself. Among them: promoting renewable energy, water conservation, fossil fuel divestment and a special focus toward environmental health and social issues that impact the poor …
Closing synod, Francis warns against righteous who leave God 'out in the cold'
… its people, including defining ecological sin and calling for the church across the Amazon to divest its finances from extractive industries that harm the planet. In his Oct. 27 homily, …
Amazon synod calls for married priests, pope to reopen women deacons commission
… its people, including defining ecological sin and calling for the church across the Amazon to divest its finances from extractive industries that harm the planet. The proposals are part of a … destruction." In the same breath, they call for the church in the Amazon to join and support divestment campaigns from companies engaged in socio-ecological damage, and simultaneously … one from the Amazon region, the Diocese of the Holy Spirit of Umuarama, in Paraná, Brazil, has divested. While humanity once held a "friendly" demeanor toward nature, the bishops decry that …
Private sector seeks to profit by detaining migrant kids
… comprised of former senior diplomatic, intelligence, and military officials _ in January 2017, divesting because Trump picked him for the Cabinet. Just over a year later, DC Capital Partners …
Copy Desk Daily, Sept. 16, 2019
… … , Jesuit Fr. Tom Reese explains in his analysis of Francis' most recent choices. ICYMI: The divestment tactic for combating climate change hit a milestone last week — helped along by significant participation from faith groups, whose … pledges push global fossil fuel divestments over $11 trillion … . Want to keep updated with the latest news from the National …
Faith pledges push global fossil fuel divestments over $11 trillion
… by 22 faith groups, including bishops in the Philippines and East Africa, pushed the global divestment movement over an estimated $11 trillion in assets redirected from coal, oil and gas … strike and a year after the Go Fossil Free campaign set a goal of achieving $10 trillion divested by 2020. Faith organizations have been at the middle of the momentum. At 27% of the 1,100-plus divesting organizations, they represent the largest single group. "In this time and place, the …
Mary Robinson: Disruption is best option left to head off climate disaster
… applause when she asked Robinson if she would join a student effort to persuade the school to divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies, a demand the school has rejected . Robinson, a … in my hand," she added, she called for investment in clean energy sources as well as divestment in fossil fuel companies. "I would like to encourage Boston College to move in that …