Gusts of wind flapped the altar cloth and rippled the clergy's vestments during Mass on the farm and the blessing of the seeds in the Pieper family's cavernous hoop barn April 15.
An African faiths environmental institute is urging the Gates Foundation to support natural methods to help Africa achieve food sufficiency and protect its environments instead of funding green revolution technologies and genetically modified seeds.
To head off deadly consequences of climate change and help farmers adapt, Catholic agencies are funding agro-ecology learning centers and solar-powered community wells in southern African countries.
As executive director for Iowa Interfaith Power and Light, Matt Russell has combined faith and environmentalism to become a national leader in the push to use agriculture as a climate change solution.
Covering Climate Now: Drought, deadly rust disease and plummeting prices have taken a toll on Guatemala's coffee industry, the largest rural employer in a country among the most vulnerable to climate change.
The Field Hospital: Historic St. Augustine Church welcomes Archbishop Gregory to D.C.; retired NBA referee becomes a deacon; Indiana parishioner, a WW2 veteran, buried on D-Day anniversary.
The farm bill that passed both houses of Congress by wide margins doesn't have money in it to protect endangered species, but it did preserve one that had been on the threatened list: bipartisanship.
Trump's trade war has not dented farmer support for him. Meanwhile, outside rural corners, issues like health care and tax cuts are factoring into Iowa's 1st District race.
The bill, opposed by numerous faith groups, would have attached stricter work requirements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and slashed funding by as much as $20 billion.
