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Fordham University falters in trying to avoid controversy
… occur as rising student activism aimed at changing Israeli policies via the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions Movement is stirring a fierce counter-reaction from advocates for Israel. …
Editorial: Reject Trump’s cruel budget proposal
… and middle-class Americans, such as earned income tax credits and child tax credits. It divests from America’s future by cutting or eliminating education programs, grants for higher …
Morning Briefing
… organizations, including five religious orders and an archdiocese in Italy, … planning to divest from fossil fuel corporations in an action timed to send a message to the upcoming G7 …
Italian archdiocese, five religious orders to divest from fossil fuels
… Catholic organizations, including five religious orders and an archdiocese in Italy, plan to divest from fossil fuel corporations in an action timed to send a message to the upcoming G7 … Francis' two-year-old encyclical, " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our Common Home." Joining the divestment movement were the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters and the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of … Si' has stirred up action for Earth … " (June 16, 2016) Each organization pledged to begin divesting as soon as possible. It is expected to take up to several years before full divestment …
Campus Notebook: Palestinian group sues Fordham; anti-Wendy's hunger strike spreads; Lynn University's sanctuary
… as contrary to the university's "mission and values," including support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. After Students for Justice in Palestine was …
"Why Do the Evil Prosper?"
… up goods and privileges in the cause. Churches bewailing exploitation and at the same time divesting themselves of what protects them from standing with the exploited. Bankrolling counter …
Pro-Palestinian activism faces suppression on Catholic campuses
… himself." At Loyola University Chicago in 2014, the student government voted to recommend divestment of endowment stockholdings in Caterpillar, United Technologies Corporation, Raytheon … and elsewhere.) Loyola's president, Jesuit Fr. Michael Garanzini , insisted that calling for divestment from multinational corporations supporting the Israeli occupation was "felt as … pressure the student government to oppose a measure that simply called on the university to divest from companies supporting what the United Nations and virtually the entire international …
Catholics supporting #NoDAPL movement see call to protect creation
… stand with the Standing Rock Sioux, whether by contacting elected officials about the issue, divesting funds from banks that support the pipeline, or in some cases traveling to the site …
Fordham ban of Palestine group contradicts free speech, Jesuit values
… university's ban on the grounds that Students for Justice in Palestine's advocacy of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel "presents a barrier to open dialogue." Given that the … — in such movements as the boycott of lettuce and grapes in support of farmworkers, and divestment and sanctions against apartheid in South Africa — there is more than a little irony in … a number of Catholic institutions and organizations — including the Canadian Jesuits — have divested from companies in the fossil fuel industry . Several Catholic organizations, including …
Campus Notebook: Palestine group denied at Fordham; new campus at Santa Clara
… as contrary to the university's "mission and values," including support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. The announcement was made after the Students …
As two-state solution dies, one-state alternative is born
… comparisons between the Israeli occupation and South African apartheid. Calls for boycotts and divestment from Israel will increase and intensify in the West, particularly Europe, as will …
Indian priest given life in prison for abusing minor
… April 1, and the priest went into hiding. Later, he surrendered before the court. The diocese divested the priest from all duties, after the scandal broke. [Matters India is a news portal …
Editorial: Raise your voice in defense of creation
… their members and other Catholics to take steps of their own — such as installing solar, divesting from fossil fuels, taking energy-efficiency measures, making lifestyle changes and …