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Priest sees his personal Christmas cards to parishioners as evangelizing
… can rewrite the card to their families; he often adds a thank-you for people's ministry. The flood of 2016 was a challenging year with so many people displaced. The church had received the cards shortly before the flood and they were destroyed. Uter took a picture of them in a wheel barrel as they were being …
Catholic nuns raise hope among Kerala's flood victims, farmers
… Saji Thomas … Ouseph Pappachan, a physically challenged farmer in flood-ravaged Kerala, says he and his wife are alive now because of Sr. Regin Mathew. "I did not feel like living after floods destroyed all I had. But the sister convinced me there is life beyond such personal … charge of Kerala relief efforts for the church says. Recent suicides mostly are attributed to flooding woes, but earlier ones have been due to factors like crop failure and debt. Pappachan …
Editorial: Trump tweets, Mueller indicts
… through disclosures of some of those documents, built a career on fraud, stiffing contractors, floods of Russian money and multiple bankruptcies. Truth, as perceived during his presidency, has …
COP24: It's not about resources anymore; it's about moral maturity
… hurts industry, we decide, and so resist it. Land always dries up from lack of water, but floods and wildfires repair the balance to nature as we go, we insist. But the scientists go on … recognize the impact of internal attitudes on an entire series of very present dangers: fire, flood, the loss of life-sustaining biodiversity, large-scale famine, immigration overflow, …
Dioramas, drama and the dome of St. Peter's: Assessing the subjectivity of Bible museums
… walk through biblical history, you’ll encounter a realistic Garden of Eden, animatronic Noah, Flood dioramas, stunning video displays, and much more. Prepare to believe!" That's how the … displays an allosaurus skeleton named Ebenezer as "a testament to the reality of the global Flood of Noah's day and the truth of God's word," suggests dragon myths were based on human …
Catholic groups push for strong climate deal at U.N. summit in Poland
… of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit under the 2015 Paris climate accord or risk worsening drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty. After hours of negotiations Dec. 8 and with no consensus …
Second Sunday of Advent
… reminds us that relationships are more important than any activity or achievement. A fire or flood often leaves people with a new sense of the relative value of their belongings. An accident …
Second Sunday of Advent: Into the desert with John
… reminds us that relationships are more important than any activity or achievement. A fire or flood often leaves people with a new sense of the relative value of their belongings. An accident …
COP24 opens in Poland with science clear, ambition hazy on climate
… years of leveling off. The past year has witnessed massive wildfires in California and severe flooding in Kerala, India. "Climate change impacts have never been worse. This reality is telling …
NCR's Fox crosses the line, goes to trial to protest nuclear weapons
… It was opened in 2015 after its predecessor plant, contaminated by chemical toxins and flooding, was forced to shut down. I began my public protests against nuclear weapons in 1980, …
Seven convicted of murdering Honduran activist Berta Cáceres
… dam on the Gualcarque River in western Honduras. Construction of the dam would have flooded large areas of land and cut off food and water supplies for hundreds of people. Cáceres' …