wildfires Archives

Church must make ‘preferential option for the Amazon,’ bishop says

Amazon synod, Catholic News Service
Oct 18, 2019

As tropical forests fall victim to loggers, miners and ranchers, the Catholic Church must take sides to defend the Amazon region and its people, said a bishop whose Bolivian diocese has been ravaged by fire this year.

L.A. Archdiocese expands fund for Southern California wildfire victims

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Oct 16, 2019

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is expanding a fund established last year for victims of wildfires in California to victims of the current wildfires burning in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

Synod drama features married priests, women deacons and ‘ecological sins’

Amazon synod
Oct 9, 2019

“There is no other option [to more married priests]. The indigenous people don’t understand celibacy, they say that very openly and I see it,” said Retired Bishop Erwin Kräutler of Xingu, Brazil.

Spurning Amazon aid, Brazil brings up Notre Dame Cathedral fire

Associated Press, Church in the Americas
Aug 27, 2019

Brazil insisted on Tuesday that it would set conditions for accepting any aid from the world’s richest nations to help fight Amazon fires, saying France couldn’t protect the Notre Dame Cathedral from fire devastation and should focus on its own problems.

Wildfires point to urgency of upcoming Amazon synod, Bolivian bishop says

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Aug 26, 2019

Wildfires raging in Bolivia and Brazil underscore the urgency of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon that Pope Francis has called for October, said Bishop Eugenio Coter of the apostolic vicariate of Pando in northern Bolivia.

Faith sustains northern Alberta residents who fled wildfires

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Jun 4, 2019

Residents of High Level and surrounding areas, including the Dene First Nation, were returning home after a harrowing wildfire threatened northern Alberta communities for two weeks.