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Pope Francis challenges fossil fuel execs to act now
… is indisputably warming up, causing more frequent, more intense, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts and heat waves. The Holy Father reminded corporate oil executives that the 2015 …
Ivory Coast bishops link flood damage with corruption, underdevelopment
… … Catholic bishops in Ivory Coast have blamed corruption and urban development for flash floods that destroyed shops and homes and left 20 people dead in the West African country's … The statement was published as bulldozers cleared properties damaged in the June 18-19 floods, which raged to up eight feet through parts of the coastal city. It said the Catholic … 21, Interior Minister Sidiki Diakite said the government had decided to expel inhabitants of flood-prone areas in two densely populated districts of Abidjan, a city of 5 million. He also …
Hundreds of calls come in at USCCB HQ seeking to foster detained kids
… for children's services for the USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services office. "We're getting flooded," Kuennen added. "It's not just Catholic Charities, but MRS-wide." The one hitch: Most of …
Facebook vows to fight hate speech, but it may be too late for Rohingya Muslims
… Centre on Statelessness. Cheap cell phones, which virtually no one previously could access, flooded the country almost overnight — all preloaded with the app. For people in Myanmar, Balazo …
Seeking Refuge: Ugandans, displaced once themselves, welcome refugees
… secondary school in Adjumani . As countries around the world grapple with the wave of refugees flooding their borders, Uganda has quietly accepted a million South Sudanese refugees , almost …
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
… world, farmers struggle to feed their families and others in the face of increasing droughts, floods and high temperatures that are disrupting the food production system. Yet our leaders …
The magical reality of Adam and Eve
… undocumented past and the folk Epic of Gilgamesh, perhaps the oldest story ever found, for a flood story that would feed the Genesis Noah flood. He introduces the reader to Augustine, Pelagius, John Milton, Voltaire and Charles Darwin, …
Parish roundup: Prison ministry; fundraising laughs; justice resources
… Parish in Ellicott City, Maryland, was a helping neighbor in many ways following recent heavy flooding there and nearby Catonsville. How to fend off discouragement and despair in ministry to …
Big oil to meet with Vatican officials, Pope Francis
… who stand to suffer the worst impacts of climate change, including more frequent droughts, floods and extreme weather events, while contributing the least to the problem. Although …
Links for 6/5/18
… them. In the Guardian , Thomas Frank looks at the most important labor event of the year, the flood of strikes by teachers in many Southern states where they are chronically underpaid. Frank … discussing its decision, but Berkowitz is surely near the mark when he writes: But given the flood of impassioned student support for Charney, the proliferation of campus "safe spaces" (the …
Parish roundup: Hurricane preparedness; parishioners aid volcano victims
… in their neighborhood," reports the Hawaii Catholic Herald via NCR . And, despite having been flooded in April, the Catholic mission church of St. William on the Island of Kauai has become a relief center . The Kauai flooding, six islands and 350 miles from the area of current volcanic activity, is unrelated to …