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The Canadian Religious Conference Opposed to the Northern Gateway Project

In a letter to the Minister of Natural Resources, the Canadian Religious Conference (CRC) expresses its express opposition to the Northern Gateway Pipeline project and to an expansion of the tar sands.

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The Spirituality of Aging: A Guided Retreat

In the twentieth century, aging was considered a footnote in society.  In the twenty-first century, aging is the main theme: we are both aging and old, our numbers greater than live births. Most congregations, both monastic and apostolic, with an average age of about 75 years, are part of these demographics.

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Religious set to blitz sex traffickers who exploit the Super Bowl

The buzz anticipating Super Bowl XLVI is already astir, and the commercial sex industry is already poised to import a generous supply of victim-prostitutes to be at the pleasure of countless game-goers in town. Local and federal officials acknowledge that organized prostitution always accompanies major sports events such as the Olympics, the World Cup and the Super Bowl. That's where the big money is.

 
Read the complete story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Bishops’ silence on climate change baffles nuns

Canadian religious leaders and interfaith coalitions banded together before the Nov. 28 to Dec. 9 United Nations climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, to urge Ottawa to take substantial steps toward a new international agreement to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocols. Almost alone among Canada’s major church and faith bodies, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops refused to sign the “Canadian Interfaith Call for Leadership and Action on Climate Change.”

 
Read the complete story on the Catholic Register website.
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CELAM official: For real progress in Latin America, spread the wealth

LIMA, Peru (CNS) -- The rocky road to Milagros Echevarria's flimsy wooden house is lined with plastic barrels. Several times a week, when a bright blue tank truck rumbles up the hill to fill the barrels, she and her neighbors must lug buckets of water up the steep slope to their homes.
 
Echevarria has worked since she was 13, mostly cleaning other people's homes. She finished high school and hoped to study accounting, but the birth of her daughter, Lucero, put her plans on hold. 
 
 
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This Week

The trailer of Across the Divide, Salt + Light’s newest documentary, has been launched on line at: www.saltandlighttv.org/acrossthedivide/

Across the Divide takes viewers to Bethlehem University, the first university established in the West Bank, to meet students, faculty and religious administrators caught in the crossfire of an enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The documentary will premiere this spring. For further information, see press release: http://saltandlighttv.org/press/

Lent begins this Wednesday, February 22, 2012: The theme of this year Development and Peace Share Lent Campaign is: Help a Just World Take Root. For more information go to: www.devp.org/en/sharelent

 


 

 

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