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Indigenous Ghost Dance teaches love of Earth and Jesus, 'He Who Makes Live'
… and reserves. Groups abstained from food and water, dancing all day in a circle around a tree symbol for the Indigenous Christ Wovoka had met, whom the Lakota called Waníkiya , "He Who …
Bishops conclude assembly with guidelines to better implement Laudato Si' in East Africa
… construction activities while the people are not making enough efforts to replant trees. We are equally concerned about poorly regulated mining and extractive industry activities. … which "are already taking affirmative actions to protect the environment," including tree planting, and campaigning for cleaning cities of thin plastics and for effective waste … other parishes, and I encourage all faithful in the Diocese of Morogoro to continue planting trees, avoid activities that degrade the environment like unnecessary burning of waste, cutting …
Pope Francis set to embark for Canada, on a one-of-a-kind papal visit
… of a teepee. A new altar has also been built with the carving in the shape of a root ball (or tree base), meant to reflect the words Indigenous delegates told the pope at the Vatican in April, that they felt as if they were trees "buffeted by powerful winds." The pope repeated those words back to them at their final …
Presbyterians to divest from 5 oil companies after years of debate
… Those commissioners also approved a proposal, known as an overture, to create a "Presbyterian Tree Fund" to purchase carbon offsets for work-related air travel by church staff, as well as one …
African youth deliver environmental demands to bishops at Laudato Si' meeting
… Wall initiative — a major land restoration effort that has sought to plant tens of millions of trees across the continent in Sahel region to halt expansion of the Saharan Desert, including in … in homilies and catechism classes, and for bishops to "lead by example" by taking part in tree plantings and environmental cleanups. They also proposed that bishops create " Laudato Si' …
Book outlines Herod the Great's 'suspicious, jealous, conniving, homicidal' legacy
… of the few things missing from this book is what would no doubt be a very convoluted family tree.) It was Herodias' daughter, often identified as Salomé, who danced before Antipas and …
Remembering Rosemary Radford Ruether's voice
… She looked you in the eye and she smiled. For the next six years she enjoyed the purple sage trees that were in bloom in spring or summer when pushed in her wheelchair through the Pilgrim …
St. Kateri Conservation Center promotes holistic approach to ecological restoration
… includes an Australian sheep farm, an alleyway garden in the city center of Poznan, Poland, a tree nursery in Cameroon and an eco-village in the Mauritian Islands. Any landscape — from patio … as long as it meets a few modest requirements: food, water and cover for wildlife; native trees, shrubs or herbaceous plants; ecosystem services such as pollination; sustainable practices … are dead zones for the myriad insects that once fed on native grasslands, oaks or paw paw trees. Insects, those "little things that run the world," as naturalist E.O. Wilson called them, …
Clean Air Act standards aid 'significant' reduction in air pollution, says new study
… air pollution. One solution they're supporting is protecting and expanding the metro region's tree canopy. B.R.E.A.D. is also a partner organization of the DART Center that is benefiting from … air quality and address environmental justice issues in the city. One strategy focuses on trees. The presence of trees in a neighborhood helps in numerous ways , including reducing the …
Expanding the circle of love
… center of the church to the margins, he was affirming this plan and pattern. A tree grows from its core to its outer rings, where all nutrients flow from the roots as they sink deeper and the branches as they reach upward to the sun. A tree that only protects its core stops growing. Divine love is dynamic, always deepening and …