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Brutal attacks against clergy in Nigeria cause fear among Catholics
… where Gbakaan worked. The attackers reportedly hacked the priest to death , tied his body to a tree in a nearby bush and left with his brother. Fr. Stephen Akagwu, who Gbakaan worked under …
New Asia-Oceania church network pursues sustainable common home in vast biome
… and Indigenous people. "This for me is a listening process. I've learned to listen to the trees for most of my life, so now I have to listen to people. I'm not in a hurry. I want to hear …
Yanomami leader brings 'ancestral wisdom' to Brazilian Academy of Sciences
… is no other land where we can go,'" he said, adding that the game animals, wild honey and trees that bear fruit like açaí and Brazil nuts "are very important, so our children have food." …
Faith groups applaud Biden's 'bold' executive actions on climate, environmental justice
… of the White House "climate day" with the Jewish holiday of Tu BiShvat, or the "New Year for Trees." A number of faith groups, including GreenFaith and the Minnesota chapter of Interfaith …
Award-winning journalist and photographer Fr. Jack Wintz dies
… for St. Francis of Assisi, especially his great love and respect for animals as well as for trees, rivers, wildflowers and creation as a whole," he said. While the book included a …
Called and chosen
… the world to see that his death on the cross on Golgotha also saved Judas hanging from a tree on a nearby hill at the same fateful hour of darkness. If so, the Apostle Judas, too, …
It takes courage to go on facing the winds
… solve this situation, in other words, don't try to take the easy way out of it.) "Just as the trees if they have not stood before the winter's storm cannot bear fruit," she goes on, "so it is … is right: It's not easy. Honesty and social courage are indeed "a narrow way." Two: Like trees, Amma Theodora says, if you want to resolve a problem, you must be willing to face it, to …
In this darkness is there also light?
… was unaware that I was living in semi-darkness until after the surgery. But when the Christmas tree lights went on, I saw anew: the white lights, the red balls and the silver tinsel were so …
Joanne Rogers, widow of ‘Mr. Rogers,’ dead at age 92
… as Tom Hanks and Billy Porter on an honorary fundraising team to aid in the rebuilding of the Tree of Life Synagogue. The synagogue was the site in 2018 of an anti-Semitic massacre in which …
Stopping the last tar sands pipeline will take all of us
… backhoes and feller bunchers. That last one just sort of walks through the forest, beheads a tree, drops the top to one side, and then comes back for the rest of the tree. This is how Enbridge rolls through a forest. They are gunning for the rivers now, heading …
Time of the Hunger Moon: saints, wolves and the global pandemic
… Jon Magnuson … On the northern edge of the Great Lakes Basin, the earth has turned to iron, trees are shed of leaves, and carpets of snow and ice cover miles of desolate forests, rocky … on a forested ridge above, there are other signs of shadowed life, leaving marks between tree lines: occasional, scattered tracks of a gray wolf. In far-off cities, rural villages and …