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NZ ministers at audience where Pope talks climate issues

NZ Catholic Staff — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:30:29 +0000

New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister James Shaw and Pacific People’s Minister Aupito William Sio were among leaders from the Pacific who had an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on November 10. Their visit was a prelude to the 23rd Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23)

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Al Gore’s climate apocalypse

Nevil Gibson — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:38 +0000

New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has declared climate change is her generation’s “nuclear-free moment”. She may be right. The antinuclear movement was launched amid fears of an apocalyptic end to life on earth. It didn’t happen. The world has never been as peaceful now as it has been since 1945. Eventually, fears of a nuclear

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Kiribati people to benefit from Caritas Challenge

NZ Catholic Staff — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 04:00:21 +0000

Young Catholics around New Zealand are making a difference by stepping into the shoes of the most vulnerable and taking on the Caritas Challenge. An annual event aimed at raising awareness about social justice issues in the world, as well as raising funds for organiser Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Caritas Challenge encourages youth to

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Pope, President Trump speak of hopes for peace

Cindy Wooden — Wed, 24 May 2017 23:09:52 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump spent 30 minutes speaking privately in the library of the Apostolic Palace May 24, and as the president left, he told the pope, “I won’t forget what you said.”echo $variable;

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Environmental changes

NZ Catholic Staff — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:00:05 +0000

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Pacific Islanders are scrambling to build seawalls out of sticks, stones, shells and coral, to protect their lands and homes from erosion and rising sea levels, while global talks continue about climate change.echo $variable;

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Kenyan bishop says climate change causes real suffering

Vatican City (CNS) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) A Kenyan bishop said that even as world leaders hesitate to enact strong measures on climate change, his diocese is struggling daily with the effects of global warming. "The failure of the Copenhagen Summit has deeply disappointed us, as we have been experiencing the deadly effects of global warming for years now,"

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Nuncio says climate summit should recognise ecology’s moral dimension

Washington (CNS) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (CNS) The United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, should not just be about "targets, indicators, figures and planning" said Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s nuncio to the United Nations and leader of the Vatican’s five-person delegation to the conference. echo $variable;

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Religious observers find conflict surfaces early at climate conference

Washington (CNS) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (CNS) The underlying tension between the world’s largest producers of greenhouse gases and small countries quickly surfaced on the first day of the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark. In smaller gatherings after Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen opened the conference with the remark that "a deal is within our

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On eve of climate summit, Pope calls for responsible lifestyles

Vatican City (CNS) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) On the eve of the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pope Benedict XVI said protection of the environment requires more sober lifestyles and a rediscovery of the "moral dimension" of development. echo $variable;

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Climate change call to ring out

Michael Otto — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000

WELLINGTON New Zealand church bells will peal at 3pm on December 13 to send a message about climate change. Leaders from the Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Salvation Army Churches have called on churches in New Zealand to ring their bells then, during a

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