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Supreme Court travel ban ruling: What it means
… Justice Clarence Thomas issued a warning about creating such an arrangement, warning that a "flood of litigation" will soon follow as the administration tries to walk the line established by …
Climate change in Vietnam causing farm failures
… at this point, crops would not be ready for harvest until September, when the usual annual floods hit the area. In late May, heavy rain also flooded many cities and provinces and damaged thousands of acres of crops across the country. … this year is unpredictable and will cause as much damage as in 2016. Cuong said last year floods and storms led to 264 people dead or missing and destroyed 370,400 houses, 2 million acres …
'Laudato Si' ' at 2: Have Francis' words been taken seriously?
… the ravages of extreme weather in our own country, to those already suffering from drought, flooding and famine elsewhere in the world. If all we care about are our own interests, including …
Politics, culture or theology? Why evangelicals back Trump on global warming
… "I have read the end of the book. There will be famine. There will be drought. There will be flood. And there will be war. Then there will be a last day where we stand before our Maker are …
Questions surround Cameroonian bishop's reported suicide
… army troops and civilians in Cameroon's Extreme North province, an area also badly affected by flooding and food shortages. The Bafia Diocese, which has 21 priests and 57 religious order …
Paris climate deal exit 'deeply troubling' to Catholic leaders
… to Trump administration officials, Cantú emphasized the disproportionate effect droughts, floods and famine have on the poor and vulnerable, writing at one point, "Climate change is one …
'After the Storm': Flawed humanity compassionately observed
… typhoon warnings with images of torrential rains, howling winds, power outages and flash floods. My instant thought was that cataclysmic drama was going to make a landfall on the …
Go out now, share the Gospel, get messy, pope tells Quebec bishops
… said his "heart is torn" because so many people back home are suffering the effects of severe flooding. Returning to the conversations with the pope and Vatican officials, Durocher told …
The border is a death trap that doesn't deter migrants
… It's U.S. policy. "If this were any other context, if these were deaths as a result of a mass flood or an earthquake or a major plane crash, people would be talking about this as being a mass …
Development aid in danger of losing to bombast and bombs
… families"; "Training families and communities to prepare for disasters such as droughts or flooding so that they can survive and rebound more quickly"; "Helping communities strengthen …
Morning Briefing
… Barrier Reef … The Sisters of Bon Secours have always provide health services, but … massive flooding in Peru has sisters "thinking on their feet and troubleshooting" like never before … . …
Sisters on the ground in flood-ravaged Peru provide medical aid to residents
… Soli Salgado … Peru's most destructive flooding in two decades has destroyed more than 800 villages as the warming of Pacific waters … attributed to the phenomenon El Niño, is expected to continue throughout April. Landslides and flooding have affected 24 of the country's 25 regions, and 13 regions have declared a state of … flew more than 3,500 pounds of medicine into the country within two weeks of the initial flooding, said Camille Grippon, director of ecology and global ministries for Bon Secours Health …
Morning Briefing, International
… Day, Divine Mercy Sunday align And from … Global Sisters Report … : Sisters on the ground in flood-ravaged Peru provide medical aid to residents Deepening the idea of hospitality in New …
Mary Magdalene drama illuminates: God's forgiveness wipes the slate clean
… days, an era of leprosy and the plague, of ravaging raids and violent wars, of unpredictable floods and famines. And sin was blamed as the cause of it all. Priests castigated their flocks …
Fifth Sunday of Lent
… is left of their communal hopes. Like a family who scavenge through the rubble of their flooded out home, all they see is death, moldy debris they prefer not to touch. Then comes the …
Florida bishop concerned US won't meet carbon emission goals after Trump order
… small farmers deal with drought, and poor villages strengthen their defenses to typhoons and floods — these are the people Pope Francis called on us to help." O'Keefe added that the impacts …
Morning Briefing
… Can Trump and the GOP win with tax reform? … Don't miss this story at Global Sisters Report: … Flooded Ngäbe communities continue to fight dam … Q & A with Sr. Elaine MacInnes … , teaching …
A wall in their river: Flooded Ngäbe communities continue to fight dam
… of Kiad, Nuevo Palomar, Quebrada de Caña and Quebrada de Plata weren't consulted about the flooding of their lands, they say, which directly affects around 500 people but also has an …
Morning Briefing
… us … God is in our midst and is working through us … Kiad, Chiriquí Province, Panama -- … Flooded Ngäbe communities continue to fight dam … Related story: … Washington hearing is …
Deluges in Peru trigger flash floods, landslides; at least 85 dead
… taken the child to the hospital. Picking her way over boulders carried down the river by the flood, Chipana joined neighbors, who had also lost their houses, as Catholic Church workers … Parish in Huachipa, in the Diocese of Chosica on Lima's east side, the area hardest hit by flooding in March. They sorted and bagged donations of food and water for emergency distribution, … houses and another 670,000 had suffered damage to their homes. Along the desert coast, flash floods raged down riverbeds that had been dry for years. Near Chipana's house, floodwaters had …