Tag: Environment

VATICAN (CNS): Pope Francis’ announcement that the Catechism of the Catholic Church would be updated to include a definition of Read more

VATICAN (CNS): As governments and world leaders struggle to contain the Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, they must also work harder Read more

VATICAN (CNS): Bishops will need to help their communities participate more in parish life and return to taking part in Read more

VATICAN (CNS): Humana Communitas’ in the Age of Pandemic, a new, eight-page reflection the Pontifical Academy for Life, notes that Read more

MANILA (SE): On July 27, Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) spending about Read more

VATICAN (CNS): Monsignor Fernando Chica Arellano, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) called Read more

HANOI (UCAN): “We strongly condemn China’s illegal actions (in Vietnam’s waters and islands),” a group of eight civil society and Read more

MANDALAY (UCAN): Church officials in Myanmar and displaced Kachin villagers have expressed unease over restarting the China-backed Myitsone dam project Read more

Environmental problems and the climate crisis gained the spotlight again when 16-year-old Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s 2019 Person Read more

MANILA (UCAN): “For the sake of the common good, we strongly recommend that ecologically sustainable alternatives be carefully considered,” The Read more

A prayer meeting for the creations at Tamar Park on September 18. HONG KONG (SE): During a prayer service at Read more

MANILA (UCAN): Church and civil society groups in the Philippines have entered into a partnership dubbed Eco-Convergence to promote the Read more

POPE FRANCIS PUBLISHED Laudato Si’, the first-ever papal encyclical on the environment, in 2015, mincing no words in his harsh and Read more

Querida Amazonia, Pope Francis’ post-synodal exhortation, has just seen the light. There is no other papal document in the recent Read more

IN HIS MESSAGE for Lent, Pope Francis calls for reconciliation with God, which bears some significance for Hong Kong as the Read more

JAKARTA (UCAN): Religious leaders in Indonesia have committed to protecting the country’s rainforests, the third largest in the world, by Read more

Environmental problems and the climate crisis gained the spotlight again when 16-year-old Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s 2019 Person Read more

MANILA (UCAN): The controversial China-funded Kaliwa Dam project in the northern Philippines which threatens to displace thousands of tribal people Read more

BANGKOK (UCAN): The Chinese embassy in Bangkok dismissed the findings of a new United States-backed study that has laid the Read more

A prayer meeting for the creations at Tamar Park on September 18. HONG KONG (SE): During a prayer service at Read more

MANILA (SE): On July 27, Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) spending about Read more

MANILA (UCAN): Video footage showed at least two policemen accosting churchgoers at at the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene, Read more

JAKARTA  (UCAN): A member of Indonesia’s Covid-19 Task Force, Dewi Nur Aisyah, said new clusters have emerged in several areas Read more

JAKARTA (UCAN): Three priests from the Diocese of Purwokerto, in Central Java, Indonesia, and two diocesan employees are self-isolating after Read more

JAKARTA (UCAN): More than half of Indonesia’s almost 80 million children have been the target of verbal and physical abuse Read more

JAKARTA (UCAN): Priests and advocates in Indonesia are seeking the support of the nation’s lawmakers in fighting the granting of Read more

JAKARTA (UCAN): More than 50 indigenous priests in five dioceses across Indonesia’s Papua region have denounced all acts of racism, Read more