Of the 142,000 certified habitats in the country, 427 are operated by places of worship, said Roxanne Nersesian Paul, senior coordinator of community and volunteer outreach at the National Wildlife Federation. The Hilton church joins just 21 others in the state of New York that have completed the certification process.
The Most Revd Dr Thabo C Makgoba has written a pastoral letter on climate change.
“The Red Desert is one of God’s stunning creations,” . . . “It’s still a wild place, a wilderness, and wilderness is where people go to look for spiritual awareness.”
While many countries in North African and the Middle East are facing political uprisings, hopefully the looming water crisis will bring countries together to solve
The mountains in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro State have been affected by the worst rainstorms in their history. In cities such as Teresópolis, Petrópolis and Nova Friburgo, hundreds of people have instantly died due to mudslides that caused entire hills to collapse. It is by far considered the worst catastrophe in Brazilian history.
Pray for those in the path of the flooding in Australia.
Members of the newly formed interfaith group in California called Desert Stewardship Project have taken on a mission to protect the most fragile ecosystem in their state.
If Sloan’s family and friends can make it happen, the plantings will be the beginning of his legacy, which is to build a small organization that will continue to landscape the homes of New Orleans flood victims whose every penny went into construction costs, leaving their rebuilt homes barren outside.
“She likes to say that she is ‘religious but not spiritual’ — a doer whose sense of God emerges from what happens between and among people.”