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'Game changer': Energy secretary touts tax incentives to power faith communities with renewables
… a summer of record-breaking heat for large parts of the U.S. and as major storms and flash floods have devastated the Northeast and South. Climate scientists have stated that as global … burning fossil fuels — heat waves and droughts are expected to persist longer and storms and flooding will become more severe. The Inflation Reduction Act's climate policies are considered a …
Jul 25, 2023
Pope to young people: To tackle life's ups and downs, look to the elderly
… he said after praying the Angelus. Noting the strong heat waves in many countries and recent flooding in South Korea, Francis called on governments to act concretely to reduce polluting …
Jul 24, 2023
American Meteorological Society's multifaith project responds to Earth's cry
… change impacts due to losses in biodiversity from warmer temperatures, and increases in flash flooding, droughts and hurricane activity. I have witnessed the devastating impacts — my own … from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of heat waves, floods and droughts becoming more frequent and intense than in the past. We see these …
Jul 24, 2023
It's up to us. When will we figure that out?
… with climate change because we didn't really take it that seriously before this. Until the floods, and the tornadoes, and the lack of water, and the heaps of public damage that come with …
Jul 20, 2023
Concern lingers among Ukrainians after Vatican's peace mission to Moscow
… of June during his sixth "evangelical expedition," Krajewski visited Ukraine's Kherson region, flooded after the June 6 destruction of the Kakhovka dam. While the war drags on, however, church …
Jul 19, 2023
Pipestone carvers preserve revered Native spiritual tradition in Minnesota prairie
… grew up hearing one of many origin stories for the pipestone: In time immemorial, a great flood killed most people in the area, their blood seeping into the stone and turning it red. But …
Jul 18, 2023
How to confront despair about the coming effects of climate change
… impossible to escape climate related news, all of it horrible. From the torrential rains and flooding in Vermont to the heat wave that hit Phoenix with record-breaking temperatures and …
Jul 17, 2023
Vermont parish offers hot meal, place to sleep for those waiting out floods
… Cori Fugere Urban … OSV News … As flood waters rose throughout Vermont during the July 10 torrential rains, at least one Catholic parish opened its facilities for people who needed a place to wait out the flooding and make post-flood plans. In Ludlow, Fr. Thomas Mosher, pastor of Annunciation Parish, … else to go." The community center, designated for just such an emergency center, had been flooded. "It's one of the corporal works of mercy -- shelter the homeless," the pastor said, …
Jul 13, 2023
Biden declares state of emergency in Vermont due to flooding
… Cori Fugere Urban … OSV News … As flood waters rose throughout Vermont during the July 10 torrential rains, at least one Catholic parish opened its facilities for people who needed a place to wait out the flooding and make post-flood plans. In Ludlow, Fr. Thomas Mosher, pastor of Annunciation Parish, … else to go." The community center, designated for just such an emergency center, had been flooded. "It's one of the corporal works of mercy — shelter the homeless," the pastor said, …
Jul 11, 2023
Aid to Ukrainians tops charity funded by Peter's Pence in 2022
… country. Among the other 191 projects in 71 other nations were assistance to those impacted by flooding in Chad, help for the construction of maternity and pediatric wards at a hospital in …
Jun 30, 2023
After cyclone's destruction, Peruvians face dengue epidemic
… in March was so destructive that its direct effects — such as the destruction of homes by floods and landslides — and indirect effects — especially an unprecedented outbreak of dengue … — the dengue-transmitting mosquito that has reproduced prolifically in the many areas still flooded. With more than 160,000 people infected by the disease and at least 287 deaths, Peru is …
Jun 29, 2023