climate change

Catholic organizations and other faith-based groups pushing for global action on climate change are celebrating Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation on the environment.

On the same day Pope Francis issued a new call for climate change action, a group of mostly mainline Protestant and Jewish leaders launched a seven-year campaign to advocate for meaningful climate solutions.

Three Italian environmental activists will face their second trial hearing at the Vatican on Wednesday for having glued themselves to the famous statue “Laocoön and His Sons” in the Vatican Museums last summer.

Pope Francis on Sunday praised young people for their efforts to protect the Earth’s environment and told them to “be the critical conscience of society.”

A number of faith groups in Louisiana are taking up the charge against climate change, advocating for environmental protections and tying their activism to their faith.

A new report released by the USCIRF, which makes policy recommendations to the President, State Department, and Congress, emphasizes that several complicated issues are overlapping in the large swath of land stretching from Senegal to Sudan, and they are not necessarily religiously motivated.

A growing number of evangelical Christians are making the case for acting on climate change. Young evangelicals say you can call it being an environmentalist, or you can just call it being a responsible Christian in the 21st century.