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Archbishop at COP15 emphasizes Indigenous rights at 'critical juncture' for nature
… loss — listing deforestation, changes in land use, overexploitation, pollution, and plastic and electronic waste — and repeated frequent calls from Catholic leaders led by Pope …
Multifaith community mobilizes to preserve creation ahead of COP15 biodiversity summit
… environments, according to the U.N. report, while greenhouse gas emissions have doubled and plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980. U.N. officials and environmentalists have …
Catholic imagination of 'Joe Pera Talks With You' finds grace in mundanity
… the 1960s: dress shirts tucked into khakis, neatly combed and outdated hairstyle, nondescript plastic-rim glasses. His walk is hunched and halting. He talks with a grandfatherly pace, volume …
Kenyan herder testifies to death, drought as UN climate conference meets in Egypt
… that start from the ground blow almost constantly, with their dusty gales carrying clothes, plastic, papers and other light materials into the sky. Herders must tighten up their shuka …
King Charles should continue to speak up about global warming
… commitment to the environment. Long before it was fashionable, Charles denounced plastic pollution in the oceans. He was also ahead of other world leaders in warning about global … effects of pollution in all its cancerous forms" and pointed to the problem of "indestructible plastic containers." He took up the challenge of climate change long before others. "We're busily …
Churches escape Fiona, but some Canadian farmers, fishers will suffer
… siding on the east side" of the church, "sending it all over the center of town." Also, "the plastic shield outside on the large Holy Family stained-glass window broke, but so did the plastic shields of the United Church beside us." The sign in front of the church also splintered …
Fresh off Inflation Reduction Act win, Catholic groups push to further environmental justice
… with Rise St. James. She also talked about her fight against the construction of a massive plastics plant in St. James Parish, part of "Cancer Alley." On Sept. 14, the factory was blocked …
Help the poor and the planet, pope tells young economists, entrepreneurs
… businesses or rallying other young people to convince companies to stop producing single-use plastic bottles and bags. Andrea, a young Italian in jail for murder but given permission to …
Activists in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' hail halt to petrochemical complexes
… the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) had issued for the proposed Formosa Plastics Group complex in the town of Welcome. The majority Black town is situated in a corridor … one of the largest chemical complexes in the world, would make chemicals used in products like plastic bottles, grocery bags, polyester clothing, antifreeze and playground equipment. In a …
Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab
… Lady of the Angels on a recent Sunday, Fr. Adrián Vázquez led parishioners seated in pews and plastic chairs in celebrating 10 a.m. Mass, flanked by piles of rubble from the sanctuary left …