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Bombing the Islamic State is fueling the violence
… means no bombs, no drones, no missiles. The U.S. and other arms-supplying nations need to stop flooding the Middle East (and the world) with weapons. A total multilateral arms embargo is …
When a ritual works: reflections on the People’s Climate March
… when the light was most splendid. On Monday, a sea of blue shirts and dresses appeared at Flood Wall Street , where people were getting arrested as I wrote. Ritual is most real when it … that eating together is sacred or that Jesus wanted us to remember it that way. The truth at Flood Wall Street was powerful: we know that profit impedes the way of healing for the earth. It …
Morning Briefing
… lean Republican … , but stray on same-sex marriage. New York: … People's Climate March … floods the streets to draw awareness. Washington: Advocates say that … defending Christians is …
Seeking change, People's Climate March floods New York streets
… Ben Feuerherd … More than 300,000 demonstrators flooded the streets of midtown Manhattan on Sunday to draw awareness to climate change in the …
Iraqi Jewish Archive to go on the road in the United States
… journey back to Baghdad, where it had been discovered -- moldy and disintegrating -- in the flooded basement of Hussein's intelligence headquarters. The State Department said archive …
Caritas Manila, CRS send aid to communities flooded by tropical storm
… Catholic News Service … Catholic aid agencies were involved in efforts to help people who were flooded out of their homes by a tropical storm in the northern Philippines. A downpour inundated … focused on distributing relief goods in low-lying communities. "There are still areas that are flooded," he told Catholic News Service on Friday. "Only the trucks can pass in these areas. The … of Marikina, where the government ordered a mandatory evacuation. The city suffered severe flooding five years ago after Tropical Storm Ketsana dumped more than one month of rain in less …
Noah's ark: a symbol for a people's climate march
… the miracle that the world was sacred again and not to be abused? Wasn’t the motion after the flood to re-sacralize the desacralized? Doesn’t that matter to racism and sexism and Wall Street’s abuses as much as it does to the next flood? The ark tells us we have another chance. We have another chance to get it right. …
A farewell to 103-year-old jazzman Lionel Ferbos
… Corpus Christi, historically an anchor of the colored Creole community. Several thousand more flooded the streets in the second line -- the tide of dancers who follow the brass bands in the …
Nine years after Katrina, activists continue efforts to save Louisiana's coastal land
… water from the Gulf of Mexico that crashed the levee system around New Orleans, causing a huge flood and epic disaster. Four-fifths of the city went underwater, an area several times the size … of the subsurface piping system have been made and continue. The city of 455,000 before the flood has nearly 80,000 fewer people today. Many poor people lacked the resources to return. But … on water issues and author of Rising Tide , a prize winning history of the 1927 Mississippi flood, also spoke at the Green Army event. Barry spearheaded a levee board lawsuit in July …
An unspoken truth about teens who flee the Catholic church
… Christian symbols that generally remain vague, fluffy and largely meaningless. Here, the Word floods out beyond church doors and plunges into the lives of our youth. Building God's kingdom …
Syriac patriarch calls Islamic State actions 'attempted genocide'
… were evicted for their religious affiliation. Younan spoke to Catholic News Service about the flood of displaced Iraqis they encountered. In the Kurdistan region, "we saw hundreds of families …