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COVID-19 is more than a public health challenge: It's a moral test
… because they got sick or lost their jobs. The last thing we need during the pandemic is a flood of evictions putting more people on the streets. Small landlords who have lost rental …
Ugandan climate activist: 'We are a climate generation and this is our fight'
… and desertification — only to find polluted air, contaminated waters, plastic pollution and floods in urban areas. A presentation by Green Climate Campaign Africa at my university taught …
Copy Desk Daily, July 9, 2020
… Indigenous peoples, but they're also taking the virus with them." In India, … migrant workers flood Goa beaches for jobs; sisters help them fit in … . This latest entry in GSR's … A Place to …
How a police chief helped Camden disband its force and bring crime down
… the kids, get to know the neighborhoods. Broadway, one of the city's main thoroughfares, was flooded with police, and the most blatant forms of open-air daylight drug dealing were pushed …
For Appalachia pastors, reopening means walking with the poor and vulnerable
… Don Clemmer … A flood ravaged Preston County in rural West Virginia in 1985. In its wake, a Catholic youth …
Threat multiplier: The impacts of climate change on refugees
… that suggest that 25 people every minute are displaced due to severe weather events such as floods and storms and droughts. … EarthBeat: What's the difference between a climate refugee and … 250 million people will be displaced by climate change impacts, such as rising sea levels and floods and famine and droughts. That's a huge number. We currently have 79.5 million people …
Across America, five communities in search of environmental justice
… of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. "What we're trying to accomplish as an …
Malawi's Catholic agencies step up aid as coronavirus infections spike
… depend on precarious daily sources of income and are affected by seasonal shocks like floods, droughts and crop disease. Only 0.1 percent of the rural population of Malawi is prepared … the far southern and northern parts of the country are still trying to overcome the impact of floods in early 2020, which displaced many from their homes and destroyed incomes. "Children are …
Laudato Si' validates centuries of indigenous knowledge to defend nature
… in hundreds of communities living by the shores of the affected rivers. We should add the big floods we just experienced like never before, which have wiped out entire communities. The impact …
Universities, archdiocese named in lawsuit over Katrina aid
… has been blamed for as many as 1,800 deaths. Levee breaches in New Orleans led to catastrophic flooding, including in parts of the city that are home to Xavier and Dillard. There have been …
Wizards and prophets
… and drab apartment blocks express the spirit of globalized technology, where a constant flood of new products coexists with a tedious monotony." He calls us to "refuse to resign …
The Trump and Barr un-reality Twitter show
… online for a consumer purchase and soon found pop-up ads from companies I had never heard of flooding my inbox. It creeped me out. It still does, so I try really hard not to do any online …
If COVID-19 frightens you, you should be terrified by climate change
… that it doesn't really affect them. (Even some victims of so-called "natural disasters," like flooding and wildfires refuse to see the connection.) Like so many others distressed by …
Nun leads young Kenyans to make 'little contributions' to Laudato Si'
… of the global crisis. "Let us widen up in the issue so that other pertinent issues such as floods, droughts, food security and even the now hard-hitting coronavirus pandemic get …
Laudato Si' takes root in Africa, but much urgent work remains
… parts of East and Central Africa have been pounded by heavy rainfall resulting in raging floods and landslides, killing hundreds and displacing thousands, further compounding efforts to …
Virtual Ignatian retreats show 'God transcends physical place and time'
… when they had the option to unmute their devices and share with the larger group. Attendees flooded in — 150 people registered, and around 75 devices (with couples behind some of them) …
42 faith groups in 14 countries announce divestment from fossil fuels
… populated, low-lying country is among the most vulnerable to climate change. More frequent flooding and rising seas threaten to displace as many as 30 million people in a country that is …
Young priest loses mentor, then his father — both to virus
… Press … Fr. Joseph Dutan recalls how he lifted the chalice in the empty church and felt a flood of emotions: grief, the pain of isolation, even doubt. But also, the promise of hope that …
Vine and branches
… time of the pandemic, a word linked to the number 40, as in Lent or the period when the great flood purified the earth for 40 days and nights to isolate and restart a consecrated future … and unwanted retreat from normal activities by threat of contagion. We await signs that the flood will end so we can exit the ark to resume our lives. It is hard to speak of any benefits …
Looking to an Indigenous flood story for lessons on grieving during the pandemic
… up the Hebrew biblical story of the rainbow, how we see it as a promise that God would never flood the earth again. Then we talked about the irony of this, because, while we aren’t in the midst of a worldwide flood, we are facing a worldwide pandemic, and it feels pretty bleak. It feels like we’re all searching for a rainbow, a sign that we have not been abandoned. Like the flood that came and wiped away everything and everyone, a pandemic is sweeping across all …