Work initiated by the Clean Pacific campaign has provided further impetus for ongoing work Catholic Women’s League in Fiji is doing on waste management in Lami. The CWL have been conducting a waste management survey and taught 35 women the skills to convert trash into usable items. “Our Memorandum of Understanding with the Catholic Women’s League is strengthening Read more
The Pacific must not be allowed to become a testing ground for deep sea mining and regional governments must stop issuing licences immediately. Pacific Conference of Churches Treaties Adviser Murray Isimeli says the region cannot afford damage to the environment by testing. “There is no evidence on what effect testing or mining will have so Read more
In his most powerful environment-themed address to date, Pope Francis has condemned the “culture of waste” and the economic system in which “men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption”. Speaking on World Environment Day, the Pope referred to the proper stewardship of the earth. “Are we truly cultivating and caring Read more
The link between respecting the environment and the sacramental life of the church is inseparable according to Bishop Bernard Unabali of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. He says he considers the link to be so unfaltering that when he baptizes a new member of the church or confirms someone or even when he ordains a priest, he Read more
Discussion of the environment can be a turn off. The topic is vast and complicated, and it raises high passions. When we imagine the environment, we may imagine walking in remote bush country now threatened by logging. We may imagine Tasmanian tigers that have become extinct, or the inhabitants of Tuvalu whose island is gradually Read more
A leaked report has raised new fears that Murorua Atoll – the site of French nuclear testing in the Pacific, is in danger of collapsing. Murorua e Tatou (MET), the Nuclear Association in French Polynesia, says the issue was detailed in a leaked report from the Ministry of Defence to the French government dated March 2010. Read more
The Clean Pacific Campaign was well received in the small town of Lami on the outskirts of Suva with the launch of a local Campaign project by the Catholic Women’s League. The project will help local women and women’s groups teach their friends and relatives about the proper management and disposal of household wastes and Read more
Environmental activism is a dangerous vocation in the Philippines, but a Catholic nun in Mindanao is defying those who want her to return to her convent and stop raising her voice in defence of creation, Catholic News Service reports. Benedictine Sister Stella Matutina works in Mindanao, the most conflictive island in the southern Philippines. Now Read more
Catholics should include sins against the environment when they visit the confessional said the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council on Friday. Father Stephen Alathara, spokesman for the KCBC, said the council had finalized its ecological mission statement, which included the directive about confession, during its annual meeting in Kochi. “Any exploitation of nature amounts to sins against Read more