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What Catholic and environmental officials expect from Pope Francis at COP28
… hope he will highlight the serious impacts that stronger storms and more severe droughts and flooding have on people, including those forced to leave their homes. Poreku, a Missionary Sister …
Religions call on COP28 for climate pledge accountability, rapid shift to clean energy
… and scientists have stated that each degree of warming increases climate-related risks — like floods, droughts, sea rise and extreme storms — that threaten people and ecosystems. "As we …
Don't overinterpret special elections tomorrow
… Republican voters. Beshear also gets high marks for how he has handled some recent disasters : flooding, a tornado and a mass shooting. Both campaigns have the race close with Beshear slightly …
Economic impacts of climate change drive workers in Bangladesh to modern slavery
… areas like Satkhira. Due to its geography and topography, Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to flooding and other climate-related disasters. The country experiences cyclones, floods and salinity into the agricultural lands and water resources. According to climate …
Floods did not dampen the spirit of the Pakistani people
… has fewer than 20 million people. In the summer of 2022, Sindh province was dangerously flooded and the people have not totally recovered. I will never forget that flood of 2022. Before it, our Sindh province — once a desert — had become a fertile plain, thanks … the costs of the seeds, fertilizer and land preparation for the owner's wheat field. When the floods destroyed the entire field, the crop was completely gone, and Ramesh found himself in …
Pew study: US Catholics more motivated by climate news than other Americans
… letter, Laudate Deum , and the new polling come after a summer of climate disasters, including flooding , wildfires and unprecedented heat . Compared to 38% of U.S. adults who said that recent …
Caritas: Voices from climate change migrants can be 'blueprint for change'
… 20 million people per year were displaced by sudden-onset weather events, such as storms, floods, wildfires — that's twice as many as displaced by conflict." "Over 3 billion people live …
The 'long swim' of Denise Levertov's conversion
… moved to Seattle. There her images of God include morning mist, the tower Mt. Rainer, joy, a flood of mercy and silence. In her last poem, "Primary Wonder," she writes, And then once more …
The Black Madonna makes her mark in the least religious state in the US
… up in Waterbury, a town in central Vermont, one of the communities affected by the July 2023 flooding . The Waterbury Area Anti-Racism Coalition sponsored the Waterbury Community Mural …
Pope's climate crisis message in 'Laudate Deum' reverberates in Africa
… and bishops on the continent continue to care for communities battered by droughts, famine, floods and storms. "This is real," Fr. Gerard Matolo, a priest in Nairobi's newly erected Wote … Africa, where devastating floods resulted from the Mediterranean storm Daniel. The storm and flood killed thousands of people, with the initial death toll placed at over 10,000, but later … to nearly 4,000, with almost 9,000 still missing, according to news reports. On Oct. 8, flooding in Cameroon killed 27 people in the country's capital. As COP28 , the U.N. Climate …
Pope Francis takes on climate deniers, 'irresponsible' Americans in new climate letter
… Christopher White … Amid a year of record-breaking rising temperatures, wildfires and flooding and ahead of a major U.N. climate summit this winter, Pope Francis on Oct. 4 released a …
US faith-based climate groups say Pope Francis shows the way with 'Laudate Deum'
… the deadly impacts of climate change all around us. Extreme heat, choking smoke and massive floods inflicted fatal, devastating harm on communities around the country and the world. The …
Teaching fish farming in Zimbabwe produces food, income, enthusiasm
… infrastructure transformation and intermittent periods of drought. Natural disasters, such as flooding, cyclones and rising temperatures, have caused many problems, including homelessness. …
'Orthodoxy is spacious': At retreat, synod members hear about women's hopes, LGBTQ issues
… future looks grim. Ecological catastrophe threatens the destruction of our home. Wildfires and floods have devoured the world this summer. Small islands begin to disappear under the sea. …
Catholic action on climate issue must continue, advocates say
… forget that in the Metro New York area, over 40 people died , many of them trapped in their flooded basement apartments, when Hurricane Ida passed through here two years ago; and that (this … of the ways he said "developing countries disproportionately face more severe heat waves, floods and droughts." Bajada cited Pakistan as an example of a country whose "carbon emissions … 1% of the world's" but is "ranked among the 10 most vulnerable countries to climate change." Flooding in the last year in Pakistan , he noted, affected "more than 33 million people … and an …
New American Climate Corps aims to boost clean energy, jobs for young people
… to move forward with their own climate corps programs. Just days earlier, 75,000 activists flooded the streets of New York City in a march demanding an end to fossil fuels , while the …
Catholic groups underscore urgency of United Nations 'Climate Ambition Summit'
… Kimberley Heatherington … OSV News … Three days after more than 75,000 activists flooded the streets of New York City in a march demanding an end to fossil fuels, the United … leaders, "Humanity has opened the gates to hell." Recounting crops swept away in torrential floods, diseases unleashed by rising temperatures, and wildfires that destroyed towns and cities, …
Catholic groups join sea of protesters in New York march against fossil fuels
… in the U.S., Europe and Middle East; ravaging wildfires in Canada and Maui; and devastating flooding in China, Brazil and Libya. Prior to the march — and following morning Mass at St. Paul … Henkel set up an Instagram page for his journey — " Pedal for the Planet " — which was flooded with messages from well-wishers. "I just wanted to do a zero-pollution bike trip," said …
Spirituality in our 90s: Beholding life evolving in each other and our world
… the foot of my bed, or place it in a wicker basket as a decorative piece. It doesn't matter. A flood of memories pours through me. This now-fading piece of knitting was done by someone who had …
'We're keeping all in God's mercy,' says bishop as despair mounts amid flooding in Libya
… … OSV News … As authorities in Libya announced a three-day mourning period following a deadly flood disaster, a Catholic bishop in the North African country expressed the church's closeness … Storm Daniel, including catastrophic rainfall in a short time, triggered the heavy flooding in eastern parts of the country. As the storm pounded the coast Sept. 10, residents said … the disaster as a consequence of the global climate crisis, which continues to trigger storms, floods, droughts, famine and heat waves, among other disasters. But a long running armed conflict …