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Catholic agencies say arrival of refugees slowed by security measures
… may be cleared, and refugee resettlement staff members are concerned that when it does, a flood of refugees might overwhelm dioceses. "While some of our sites are on target for arrivals, …
U. N. conference on least developed countries prescribes sustainable agriculture
… soil water retention and resilience to climatic shocks such as higher temperature, droughts, floods and storms. Sustainable agriculture with its focus on building agro-ecological systems, …
Australian religious orders express distress at bishop's ouster
… rural Australians who in recent years suffered through the effects of drought and “dramatic floods that have taken a high toll in lives and property.” She said the Australia, where many are …
Gov't Is NOT the Problem
… along the mighty Mississippi are heartbreaking: The farms that have been inundated with flood waters to spare a city, the homes, all of them poorer, too close to the river and in danger of being swept away, the reigniting of flooding fears in New Orleans and that most haunting question that city ever faces, “Will the … rights as a worker because you have no union to protect you. In short, the devastation of the floods and the tornadoes is sudden and overwhelming, and the economic devastation the middle and …
Morning Briefing
… back inactive Catholics. Along the Mississippi River … Agencies pitch in to help those hit by flooding … Philippines … On reproductive health bill, president open to dialogue with Catholic …
One record-breaking month after another
… Dams were threatened. Ponds quadrupled in size. All of the county roads were closed due to flooding. A friend of my brother’s, the prosecuting attorney for the county, was marooned for the … no letup. He said he had lived now through, in the past 15 years, three once-in-a-hundred year floods. These record rains followed on the heels of a winter that held a record snowstorm in …
Refugees suffer in postwar Iraq
… health care. Jordan and Syria have, generally speaking, acted responsibly as refugees have flooded their respective countries -- as responsibly as any nation facing an unwanted influx …
'The inconsolable secret': Excerpts from 'Souls in Full Sail'
… passionate and dynamic kind of knowing, a resurrected knowing, a beatific knowing, completely flooded and drenched by the love of God. This is a moment we can only guess at from moments of …
Religious Education Congress 2011: A vibrant human mosaic
… was represented, and 444 people came from 12 countries. Master catechists Kathleen and Jeff Flood from St. Bartholomew Parish in Long Beach, Calif., work with the RCIA program and have been … a story, to get an idea across in a given way, and I think that is what the congress is,” Jeff Flood said. “Each year it is a different story according to a theme. Everyone gets to be a protagonist in their own story.” Kathleen Flood said that they come “to search for whatever can inform adult faith formation, to take it …
Live out the transforming love of Jesus
… Abel showed violence coming into human history. Then the arrogance of people brought on the flood that, in the story, destroys the whole earth. Noah and his son Ham’s disrespect of him …
Social Darwinism & The Triangle Tragedy
… it was not Hurricane Katrina but the failure of the levees around New Orleans that caused the flood in that great city, at Triangle, the problem was not just the fire, but the fact that the …