Wow!: With stories and puppets, environmentalist battles to save Indonesia’s mangroves
TOMMY ARDIANSYAH and STANLEY WIDIANTO, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the work of Indonesian environmentalist Samsudin to spread the work to young people…
David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $US500 billion a year to protect nature
London, UKReuters British broadcaster David Attenborough led a call from conservation groups on Wednesday for the world to invest $500 billion a year to halt the destruction of nature, warning that the future of the planet was in “grave jeopardy”. Attenborough, whose new film A Life on Our Planet documents the dangers posed by climate […]
With new document, Vatican implements practical steps for environmental sustainability
Vatican CityRNS Five years after Pope Francis issued his landmark “green” encyclical, Laudato Si’, calling for new economic and social models that embrace human and environmental diversity, the Vatican released a new document on Thursday that hopes to bring theory into practice. “The COVID-19 pandemic leads us to further experience the socioeconomic, ecological and ethical […]
Pope Francis condemns ecological sins and Nazi-inspired rhetoric
Vatican CityRNS A day after the US Catholic bishops declared the fight against abortion their most urgent priority at their fall meeting in Baltimore, prioritizing it over protection of the environment, Pope Francis set the record straight in a scathing speech at the Vatican on Friday in which he condemned “ecological sins”. Speaking to a […]
ESSAY: POPE FRANCES PUSHES A NEW THEOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
US religion commentator MARK SILK, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at how Pope Francis is calling for “prophetic actions” to spur governments into greater action on climate change…
Urban oil well to be shut down, cleaned up after pressure from LA faith activists
Los Angeles, US RNS After years of advocating by community and faith organisations, the city of Los Angeles is officially requiring an oil and gas company to close and clean up a neighbourhood drill site. “It’s one of the closest sites to residential homes within the whole city,” said Niki Wong, director of policy and […]
Faith activists urge UN Environment Assembly to address human side of climate change
Nairobi, KenyaRNS At a small tent on the edge of the UN campus here, environmental activists from the world’s faith traditions huddled on the sidelines of last week’s 11th to 15th March meeting of some 5,000 environmental scientists, politicians and civil society, the fourth gathering of the United Nations Environment Assembly. As the official delegates discussed current […]
Eyeing Amazon synod, Brazil accuses church of “leftist agenda”
Sao Paolo, BrazilRNS While the Vatican’s synod on clergy sexual abuse has grabbed headlines in much of the world, another meeting of bishops, slated for October 2019, is already making news here, with some in the administration of Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, reportedly calling the synod a platform for “leftist agenda”. In 2017, Pope […]
SOUTH SUDAN: AMID UPHEAVAL, COUNTRY’S TEAK FORESTS FALL
HELLEN TOBY reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation from South Sudan…
POSTCARDS: ENVIRONMENTALIST PRIEST IN PERU SAYS VERY LITTLE HAS CHANGED SINCE POPE’S VISIT
PAULA DUPRAZ-DOBIAS reports for Religion News Service from Peru…