Grassroots group to host Good Friday prayer marathon for persecuted Christians
- Apr 7, 2020
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East Africa fears prolonged locust invasion as eggs hatch from first wave
- Feb 26, 2020
In mid-February, a second wave of a locust invasion started sweeping across Kenya.
‘Laudato Si” at five: Project seeks to foster prayerful climate action
- Feb 23, 2020
Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment set the path five years ago and now a new effort by the Catholic Climate Covenant seeks to shape an intergenerational movement to respond through action and prayer to the challenges posed by climate change.
Friar warns that Brazilian ecological problems can lead to food crisis
- Feb 3, 2020
Franciscan friar and peasant leader Father Sérgio Görgen is warning a drought in a major food producing state in Brazil could lead to a food crisis in the country.
Brazilian Church helps communities, industries affected by oil spills
- Dec 19, 2019
Catholic officials are trying to reduce the environmental and social consequences of a huge oil spill that has impacted several coastal communities in the northeastern part of Brazil since the end of August.
Theologians praise suggestion to add ‘ecological sins’ to Catholic catechism
- Nov 20, 2019
A possible recognition of “ecological sins” in the Catholic Church’s main teaching document would help “sharpen our consciences in matters of ecological abuse,” according to Dr. Christopher Thompson, a leading moral theologian.
Success in protecting ozone layer offers lessons for future, pope says
- Nov 7, 2019
Decades of fruitful international cooperation on protecting the earth’s ozone layer serve as an important lesson for guiding collaboration needed today, Pope Francis said.
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