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- Jun 17, 2021
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Church leaders from U.S., Amazon ask governments to protect rainforest
- Apr 17, 2021
Less than a week before the U.S.-sponsored Leaders Summit on Climate, environmental and religious leaders said they are worried about talks on how to preserve the region and are asking government officials from the U.S. and the Amazon to look at kindly at the rainforest and its peoples.
Creation must be protected, not exploited, pope says at audience
- Sep 16, 2020
Human beings must change their relationship with nature and view it not as an “object for unscrupulous use and abuse” but as a gift they are charged by God to care for and protect, Pope Francis said.
UK development agency’s climate change plan ‘not fit for purpose,’ CAFOD says
- Sep 15, 2020
England’s Catholic overseas development agency is calling on the UK government to stop funding fossil fuels with its development finance institution.
African Catholic climate activists warn against proposed pipeline
- Sep 12, 2020
As Catholic groups worldwide divest from fossil fuels, some priests, environmental conservationists and activists in East Africa are resisting an oil pipeline taking shape in their region.
Climate change forcing Pacific islanders from homes, cardinal says
- Oct 24, 2019
When Cardinal John Ribat of Papua New Guinea was young, he and his neighbors noticed that their well water tasted of salt. Crops also failed as the soil became salty.
African youth challenged to do more to fight climate change
- Jul 20, 2019
An international conference in Nairobi on Laudato Si’ – the 2015 environmental encyclical by Pope Francis — ended on Wednesday with young people of different faiths being challenged to take concrete action against the degradation of humanity’s “common home.”
Philippine bishops call for ‘ecological conversion’ amid climate crisis
- Jul 17, 2019
Catholic bishops in the Philippines criticized “the continuing destruction of our common home” and called for “ecological conversion” amid “climate emergency.”
African churches work to counter pressures on Congo River basin
- Jul 16, 2019
The Congo River basin, which spans six African countries, is coming under pressure, partly due to clearing of the forests for subsistence agriculture, large-scale farming, illegal logging and lack of clear reforestation policies.
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