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EarthBeat Weekly: COP26 results are still too little, though perhaps not too late
… Meanwhile, deaths due to climate change are increasing from drought, famine, disease and flooding, most perilously for the poor and vulnerable. Yet U.S. bishops continue to ignore this …
Blessed are those who mourn now — and do something to make it better
… will rise again. Together. Then the next generation, the one now watching the fires and the floods, watching the senseless "War of Congressional Houses Without a Conscience" doing nothing to stop the fires and the floods, may realize that their parents' generation never said a thing about it. Then, when they …
Youth, Indigenous people bring climate frontlines to the forefront at COP26
… the country's population depends. In 2017, powerful rainstorms triggered major landslides and flooding near the capital of Freetown, leaving more than 1,100 people dead or missing. Sowa's …
Faith groups increasingly join 'impatient, feisty, unstoppable' fight against climate change
… field canals and built an elevated greenhouse to save their plants and medicinal herbs from flooding. "It's saving what we know that's going to be destroyed from both the change of the heat …
Pope prays for Haitian people, flood victims in Vietnam, Sicily
… Oct. 27. The pope also said he was praying for Vietnam, which was recently hit with widespread flooding, causing thousands to evacuate their homes. "My prayer and my thoughts go to the many … he said. He also remembered the people of Sicily, who have been devastated by flash flooding triggered by a powerful storm system, killing two people. Before praying …
Faith community arrives in Glasgow to pray, press world leaders for strong action at COP26
… generations," the pope said after the Angelus on Sunday. He also called attention to recent flooding that has decimated parts of the Philippines and the ongoing suffering in Haiti caused by …
As Biden prepares to meet Pope Francis, a call to honor greatest commandment
… waves have killed hundreds, and droughts threaten some parts of the country, while storms, floods and avalanches tear through others. These manifestations of the climate crisis continue to …
Like prior stand against nuclear weapons, climate emergency calls for bold leadership from US bishops
… to the faithful supporting the urgency for action to fight man-made climate change. After floods in which people in New York have drowned in their homes, and as California residents … slowing the earth's heat-up now will prevent more catastrophe — deadly heat waves and shocking floods, crop failures, water shortage, ecological collapse. This would be a good time to hear …
Catholic groups outline priorities ahead of Glasgow COP26 climate change summit
… communities or countries receive compensation for climate impacts, such as droughts and flooding, they've already suffered. "If you live on a Pacific island that is now sinking beneath …
West Virginia faith community to Joe Manchin: Listen to Pope Francis, support bold climate investments that benefit our state
… Virginia, are no strangers to the effects of climate change. In White Sulphur Springs, a flash flood hit on June 23, 2016, leaving a sickening amount of devastation. Twenty-three people lost … roads and bridges disappeared. According to a story in The Washington Post a year later, the flood was referred to as a "1,000-year flood." In Huntington just this past summer, flooding caused extensive street, building and viaduct damage. Some of Marshall University's …
A Communion story: We are all 'unworthy'
… of families are grieving the lives of loved ones lost to COVID-19. Ferocious fires and floods are erupting with unexpected fury. And the profound wounds of clergy sexual abuse and …