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When people stop listening: Keep it up
… rejection of the stranger. No to crimes against immigrants and children. No to the rape of the trees and the pollution of the skies and the poisoning of the oceans. No to the despicable …
Uganda's quest for sustainable energy poses fresh environmental threats
… related health hazards. In the past 25 years, Uganda has lost 63% of its forest cover due to tree-cutting for firewood, timber and charcoal, according to the National Forest Authority. The …
In Africa, farmers learn new methods for facing drought, floods
… and driest districts, Spiwe Moyo tended her ripening tomato crop. Nearby, underneath a baobab tree, a few emaciated donkeys and a small herd of skinny cattle take shelter from the blazing … surrounded by bare red soil that receives little shade from the sparse leaves of the mopani trees and a few patches of dry grass long desolated by the high temperatures. Despite the … nothing to do to feed themselves or take care of their families, so they end up cutting down trees as a source of energy [for brick-making kilns], and this is contributing to the arid …
EarthBeat Weekly: There's still time to act on climate change
… for Catholic News Service. And in Louisiana, as she cleaned up branches torn from her oak trees by hurricanes, youth minister Lindy Brasher was reminded that God also calls us to shed the …
I need to forgive Donald Trump
… beam in your own eye?" Well, it seems to me that while I may have a beam, Trump has a sequoia tree, and I have to forgive him so I can get it out of my head. Trump hasn't hurt me personally. …
World religions, UN unite for book on faith and action for the Earth
… have responded to the call to care for the earth. One shared focus across faiths has been trees. Many Shinto shrines are found in forests, which are then viewed as sacred, leading in … In November 2019, Sikhs celebrated the 550th birthday of Guru Nanak by planting 1 million trees. Catholic dioceses and groups in Africa have also emphasized tree plantings. Since the early 1990s, some Buddhists have ordained trees, wrapping traditional …
Links for 10/6/20
… Martha Hunt about her advocacy for people with scoliosis. Talk about not falling far from the tree! [Michael Sean Winters covers the nexus of religion and politics for NCR.] … Editor's note: …
Why is Francis of Assisi the patron saint of ecology?
… made nests for doves set for sale. He also directed his companions not to cut down the entire tree when gathering firewood and to set aside a portion of the garden for wildflowers to bloom. … all creatures — and not merely those nonhuman animals we classify as sentient, but rocks and trees alike — his sisters and brothers because, in a real sense, they are ," Horan said, adding …
EarthBeat Weekly: Following in St. Francis' footsteps as Season of Creation ends
… Francis' feast day — we can help restore what humans have destroyed. "Every time we plant a tree or restore a wetland, get involved in a reforestation project or improve some degraded … Water, Brother Fire and our Sister Mother Earth, as St. Francis wrote . And we can plant a tree, like the little boy who is working with this family to create a mangrove swamp in the Sept. …
Systemic impunity for police parallels clerical protection of abusers
… justice is a painful reminder that we must not be people who lose sight of the forest for the trees. This particular tree of racial injustice does not exist alone, but grew in a diseased and malfunctioning forest, … is also just a symptom of a broader systemic illness — it is one horrifying, radioactive tree that appears in hindsight to be all but inevitable considering the toxic level of structural …
Tracking energy use in the Chicago Archdiocese, one meter at a time
… — but it should be," Durnbaugh said. While other initiatives, like solar energy or planting trees, garner a lot of attention as solutions to limit climate change, Durnbaugh said that one of …
Angels watching over me
… encounter with Jesus. Nathaniel is startled when Jesus says that he has seen him under a fig tree. The passage is rich with biblical references to Jacob’s dream of angels and implies that Nathaniel had been meditating under a fig tree about this story from Genesis 28. He realizes that Jesus has seen him in mystical prayer, …
Lens on Creation: Planting trees to heal the Earth
… once covered with magnificent forests. Under Spanish and French colonial control, however, the trees were cut down for export to Europe or to make way for huge sugar plantations. Today, many of the remaining trees are being felled to produce charcoal that's shipped to Port-au-Prince and other cities for … mean children like Jeslaine growing up in a country where everyone could sit under their own tree, in peace and unafraid. Jeslaine has a lot of trees to plant. How can we help her? … For …
Mother of Sorrows: how racial injustice paralyzes the imago Dei
… Racial diversity is part of God's plan, because, for Jackson , "God did not make one type of tree or flower or fish or horse or grass or rock." The inviolable value of human life and the …
Earthbeat Weekly: What's one thing we can all do about climate change? Talk about it
… worldwide are renewing the face of the Earth during this Season of Creation by planting trees, lobbying legislators and educating or sharing ideas through webinars. What is your group …
Trump thinks his road to victory passes through the Catholic Church
… president has claimed, if he is to succeed at shaking more voters from the religiously zealous tree. Despite the daily increase in the death toll from COVID-19 , they need people to believe …
Pope: Compassion for earth is vaccine against epidemic of indifference
… 'app,' but we no longer know the names of our neighbors, much less know how to distinguish one tree from another." "Contemplation is the antidote to hasty, superficial and inconclusive …
EarthBeat Weekly: Pope Francis' ecological conversion on the way to Laudato Si'
… congregations are renewing the face of the Earth during this Season of Creation by planting trees, lobbying legislators and educating or sharing ideas through webinars. What is your group …
All in the family
… Virgin Mary … Rom 8:28-30; Matt 1:1-16, 18-23 The glory of Jesus lights up his entire family tree. Everyone participates in the mystery of his Incarnation, from Abraham reaching back even to …
This 'Season of Creation' demands attention to environmental racism
… heart disease, stroke, we're seeing that kind of deadly attack also occurring." While planting trees and reevaluating our carbon footprints are worthwhile efforts, let us also focus our …