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Pope Francis challenges fossil fuel execs to act now
… is indisputably warming up, causing more frequent, more intense, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts and heat waves. The Holy Father reminded corporate oil executives that the 2015 …
Ivory Coast bishops link flood damage with corruption, underdevelopment
… … Catholic bishops in Ivory Coast have blamed corruption and urban development for flash floods that destroyed shops and homes and left 20 people dead in the West African country's … The statement was published as bulldozers cleared properties damaged in the June 18-19 floods, which raged to up eight feet through parts of the coastal city. It said the Catholic … 21, Interior Minister Sidiki Diakite said the government had decided to expel inhabitants of flood-prone areas in two densely populated districts of Abidjan, a city of 5 million. He also …
Hundreds of calls come in at USCCB HQ seeking to foster detained kids
… for children's services for the USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services office. "We're getting flooded," Kuennen added. "It's not just Catholic Charities, but MRS-wide." The one hitch: Most of …
Facebook vows to fight hate speech, but it may be too late for Rohingya Muslims
… Centre on Statelessness. Cheap cell phones, which virtually no one previously could access, flooded the country almost overnight — all preloaded with the app. For people in Myanmar, Balazo …
Seeking Refuge: Ugandans, displaced once themselves, welcome refugees
… secondary school in Adjumani . As countries around the world grapple with the wave of refugees flooding their borders, Uganda has quietly accepted a million South Sudanese refugees , almost …
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
… world, farmers struggle to feed their families and others in the face of increasing droughts, floods and high temperatures that are disrupting the food production system. Yet our leaders …
The magical reality of Adam and Eve
… undocumented past and the folk Epic of Gilgamesh, perhaps the oldest story ever found, for a flood story that would feed the Genesis Noah flood. He introduces the reader to Augustine, Pelagius, John Milton, Voltaire and Charles Darwin, …
Parish roundup: Prison ministry; fundraising laughs; justice resources
… Parish in Ellicott City, Maryland, was a helping neighbor in many ways following recent heavy flooding there and nearby Catonsville. How to fend off discouragement and despair in ministry to …
Big oil to meet with Vatican officials, Pope Francis
… who stand to suffer the worst impacts of climate change, including more frequent droughts, floods and extreme weather events, while contributing the least to the problem. Although …
Links for 6/5/18
… them. In the Guardian , Thomas Frank looks at the most important labor event of the year, the flood of strikes by teachers in many Southern states where they are chronically underpaid. Frank … discussing its decision, but Berkowitz is surely near the mark when he writes: But given the flood of impassioned student support for Charney, the proliferation of campus "safe spaces" (the …
Parish roundup: Hurricane preparedness; parishioners aid volcano victims
… in their neighborhood," reports the Hawaii Catholic Herald via NCR . And, despite having been flooded in April, the Catholic mission church of St. William on the Island of Kauai has become a relief center . The Kauai flooding, six islands and 350 miles from the area of current volcanic activity, is unrelated to …
Editorial: Nations could stop Yemen's deadly crisis -- but won't
… the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh; Syria's ceaseless, senseless war; and South Sudanese flooding into East African neighbors and looking toward Europe. Guterres made a pretty good case. …
You may be more elite than you think
… tyrant like Trump almost inevitable. Stewart neatly captures the culture expanse that this flood of economic well-being covers: The sociological data are not remotely ambiguous on any …
Jesuit ponders a dislocated God for the dislocated believer
… bourgeois sentimentality and moral posturing of the post-Enlightenment era, right down to the floods of present-day nones who confess to no religious affiliation at all, faith has become less …
Volcano's lava flow displaces members of one Hawaii parish
… direct housing assistance for the victims of both the Kilauea eruption and April's historic flooding on Kauai. Donations will go toward temporary housing subsidies, emergency home repairs …
'Catholics Are Still In' campaign recommits support for Paris climate pact
… predict the effects of climate change, among them increased droughts, wildfires, intense flooding and extreme weather events, will become most extreme and likely irreversible. A study …
Trump administration will terminate temporary status of Nepali immigrants
… destabilize those areas. The CLNIC report also noted that other natural disasters, such as floods and landslides, have further impeded recovery and that the Global Report on Internal …
Water unites us, so make it available to all
… powers. In Genesis, water is both the source of life-giving creation and the chaos of the flood. In Exodus, water becomes a weapon against the oppressive Egyptians. Physical thirst is a …
Environmental vulnerabilities are linked to every other problem in Haiti
… threats that encompass not only the worries about polluted waters, but also of coastal flooding from hurricanes. Gray clouds emanating from Hurricane Maria looked threatening, and residents like Farah Jasmin said there is little they can do when floods threaten except evacuate elsewhere and wait it out. "From September through December, … not carry their weight in emergency and subsequent reconstruction efforts. His residence was flooded during the hurricane and he lost everything — computer, food, clothing — and noted there …
Deep incarnation liberates all creation
… even in the face of increasing numbers of massive fires, extreme weather events, droughts and flooded cities, Creation and the Cross is a book we all need to read, and we need to read it …