“In Brazil, the Cerrado savanna region experienced more deforestation in 2023 than the Amazon, with losses of nearly two-thirds of the deforestation observed in the country, with the vast majority of these operations appearing to be illegal.”
“The film portrays a climate activist, an indigenous leader, a climate refugee, marine biologists as they travel from across the world to speak to Pope Francis at the Vatican. https://youtu.be/Rps9bs85BII”
The purpose of this article is to show that the insights of Laudato Si’ can help change the self-understanding of business from the current profit-driven model to one which, with the right political supervision, can serve the human needs and, in particular, can promote the care of our common home.
“In 2006, to address growing ecological awareness and the need to implement Catholic social teaching on ecology within the US Church, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) helped form Catholic Climate Covenant. ”
[]“In this podcast Michael Kelly interviews Pedro Walpole, an Irishman who came to the Philippines as a forester, joined the Jesuits working on environmental programs and issues in the Philippines, elsewhere in Asia and across the world since the 1980s.”
“ the global program for putting Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical into practice throughout the Catholic Church, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Ohio had chosen their guide for the journey: martyred Sr. Dorothy Stang, who was murdered in Brazil in 2005.”
“the Laudato Si' Action Platform is now scheduled to on Nov. 14. By that time, planning guides and related materials for the program — a type of sustainability road map guided by church teaching — are expected to all be completed and made available on the initiative's website.”
“In the run-up to those events, the Global Catholic Climate Movement has launched a worldwide petition called, "Healthy Planet, Healthy People". The petition was developed by 300 Catholic NGOs, coordinated by the Laudato Si' Movement. ”
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