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… penance, it would help the planet. Likewise, many churches are encouraging members to give up plastic for Lent. Fasting is only one way to observe this ancient tradition. You can also choose …

… Bay, Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo has joined a chorus of disapproval of the nation's growing plastic waste problem by calling parishioners to action. Ucanews.com reported that, through a … all parishes nationwide Jan. 5-6, the prelate appealed to all Catholics to reduce their use of plastic and plastic bags due to their harmful impact on the environment. The news comes as other … spat out five plastic bags in a last-gasp effort to avoid suffocating, Reuters reported. Plastics are broken down into small particles that can make their way into drinking water, …

… baptismal site on the banks of the Jordan River in mid-December. Twenty feet away, a rope with plastic buoys marks the border with Jordan, and a Jordanian soldier waits, looking bored, on the …

… the beautiful lights and adornments of Christmas trees helped us," al-Qumos said. Still, as plastic trees imported from China have become ubiquitous in the rural Coptic heartland, shifting … with the West is wrong." But 31-year-old truck driver Malam Allam, who hauls the boxes of plastic trees 40 miles from the provincial trading center of Sohag to El Kosheh, said the date …

… Julia Walsh … Sitting next to me in another hard, plastic chair is a good-hearted man wearing brightly colored scrubs — colors that label him as … expansion of global consciousness. This time, the main course seems to be  the horror of the plastics in the ocean . I feel sick as I learn how remote beaches are littered with garbage that …

… or made their way to Bethlehem by following the light from the star atop the tree, a piece of plastic that glowed within from a white Christmas bulb stuck inside. The figurines were small and …

… person went about life. There were vendors who encouraged people to abandon Styrofoam cups and plastic straws, and save energy by wearing wool in winter weather rather than turn up the heat in …

… , one hand wheeling an ice chest filled with oranges and bottled water, the other clutching plastic bags of peanut butter and ham and cheese sandwiches, chips and fruit snacks. Dressed in a …

… passed, although Uganda does plan next year to ban the sale of  sachet alcohol,  sold in small plastic pouches. Meanwhile, many addicts in Kampala and other cities across the country still …

… of thinking and acting that are more respectful of creation. For example: 'avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can …

… keep the oceans clean instead of allowing them to be "littered by endless fields of floating plastic." Thinking of oceans and seas, also led the pope to think of the thousands of migrants …

… in Portland, Oregon, has worked with fellow classmates at St. John Fisher School to fabricate plastic prosthetic hands for potential use by underprivileged children. The device is created by …

… when we named his society "companions of Jesus." As the commercialized phrase reads on plastic wristbands, "What Would Jesus Do?" (or "WWJD"), let us fall deeply into what that …

… an Arizona court for the 2001 murder of James "Griffin" Green, whose remains were found in a plastic bag in a desert north of Phoenix. Should his execution go through, it would be the first …

… too, have few tools. But they are determined. And what we may mistake for debris — all the plastic bags and makeshift belongings, the trail of empty water bottles abandoned in the desert — …

… Because the mice love what we leave behind after lunch. Most of the 40 people bring their own plastic packaged food, leftovers from home. We call it the "Tupperware" parade. We rarely share …

… in it, he certainly lives out of it. The backseat and trunk are packed with bags, boxes of plastic cups, a set of golf clubs, a tennis racket, a miter that he rarely wears and a crosier, a …

… to St. Louis's Intercommunity Ecological Council. Her eyes were opened to the omnipresence of plastic. Plastic is filling the oceans and cluttering the beaches, killing fish and fowl and … around a pink plastic Q-tip. In 1967, a family friend advised Dustin Hoffman to go into plastics in the movie "The Graduate." Wrong. So Roberta and I began to try to rid our house of …

… NCR Staff … For Catholics seeking to reduce their own consumption of plastics, the parish often provides a first area. Hospitality gatherings after Mass and other … staff writer Brian Roewe's three-part series "Reducing Waste" looks at the challenge posed by plastic pollution — the theme of Earth Day 2018 — and how Catholic parishes and communities are … taken up by many parishes for years, now in the spotlight with a 2018 Earth Day theme to end plastic pollution. In the second article in "Reducing Waste,"  Catholic parishes and hospitals …