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Catholic priest and environmentalist, Edwin Gariguez (in photo), is urging Europe’s banks to stop financing oil companies, including a huge gas project in the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines.
“Hoping Together” is the motto chosen for the announced Apostolic Journey that Pope Francis will make to Mongolia from 1 to 4 September. The Holy See Press Office explained that the motto “underscores the importance of bilateral cooperation between the Holy See and Mongolia.”
Comboni Missionary Father Giuseppe Ambrosoli (in drawing) will be beatified on November 22, in Kalongo, Uganda where Fr. Ambrosoli spent more than 40 years of his life in a parish, hospital, nursing and midwifery schools.
Costa Rica has launched an economy-wide plan to “decarbonize” the country by 2050, as the Central American nation aims to show other nations that it is possible to address climate change.
Thailand enjoys the dubious distinction of being the world’s most unequal nation, the deadliest country in ASEAN for road accidents, and one of the Asian nations with the highest level of gun-related murders, according to recent studies.
Believers are urged to replace religious artifacts in their homes with posters of the Communist Party leader if they want to benefit from poverty-relief efforts
Pollution costs Beijing 1.6 million lives per year, 17% of all deaths; 92% of Chinese people breathed at least 120 hours of unhealthy air between April and August 2014; 38% of the people live, on average, in an atmosphere harmful to health, according to U.S. environmental parameters. This was discovered by scientists at the University of Berkeley, who conducted research on Chinese territory using Google Maps platform that Beijing has blocked nationwide.
European Union leaders, faced with a staggering migration crisis and deep divisions over how to tackle it, managed to agree early Thursday to boost border controls to ease the influx and to send 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to international agencies helping refugees at camps near their home countries.
Schools are at the heart of the problem but, at the same time, they are the key to defeating terrorism and religious extremism in Pakistan. Many are adamant about this: experts, educators, bishops, civil society organizations, politicians and scholars alike. “For as long as the jihad begins in the classroom and religious hatred is fostered through state school textbooks, it will not be easy to imagine this country as one that exudes tolerance, a peace-building country that strives for harmony,” Professor James Paul Anjum explained to Vatican Insider. Mr. Anjum is a Christian and president of the Pakistan Minorities Teachers’ Association (PMTA).
Continuing the Vatican’s full-court environmental press, Pope Francis, recently, called for radical change in the mining industry, demanding greater respect both for nature and for the human rights of workers. The mining industry, he said, is “called upon to adopt a behavior inspired by the fact that we constitute a single human family.”
