The Kalondon River, owned by the Nyeri Archdiocese, has been facing numerous challenges, including logging upstream, waste dumping from locals and illegal tapping.
Ahead of COP28, the U.N. climate change conference, Catholic leaders in Africa called for decisive action against climate change, as churches and agencies moved to aid people affected by floods.
Catholics hope Pope Francis' first-ever papal visit to a United Nations climate change conference at COP28 in Dubai this year can be the push international climate talks need to get back on track.
Pope Francis is set to speak at the inauguration of the first-ever "Faith Pavilion" during the upcoming 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates.
Religious leaders have called on decision-makers to use COP28 to usher in a rapid transition to clean energy sources, and for nations to establish accountability mechanisms to hold them to climate action pledges.
Releasing the schedule for the pope's trip Nov. 9, the Vatican said he would address the conference Dec. 2 and spend the rest of the day in "private bilateral meetings." The inauguration of the Faith Pavilion will be Dec. 3.
'Inviting young people beyond the traditional and typical provides room for them to experience something beyond the ordinary,' a Springtide Research Institute report states.
Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson's new right-wing project launched last week with claims that carbon emissions have "declined" and that the climate crisis is a "secular religion."
The degree to which Pope Francis has engaged with the central debate in environmental thought over the past half a century — anthropocentrism versus eco- or biocentrism — has not been adequately recognized.
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