Dwindling flocks, environment worry Syro-Malabars

A four-day assembly of the Syro Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala has expressed concern over dwindling flocks and environmental damage.

Jordan River ‘too polluted for baptisms’

The environmental group Friends of the Earth Middle East has called on the Israeli government to close down a baptism site at the lower Jordan River until water quality standards for tourists and pilgrims bathing at the holy site were met.

Benedictine Abbey builds biogas plant

The German Benedictine Abbey of the Missionaries of St Ottilien has begun building a biogas plant which will enable the community to produce its own electricity and sell power to the local community.

Myanmar bishop advocates eco-spirituality

Bishop Nicholas Mang Thang of Hakha is well known in the Catholic Church and among other Christian denominations for championing agricultural and ecological issues. (ucanews.com)

A 2008 interview with late Bishop Francisco Claver, SJ, DD

In March 2008, ESSC had the refreshing opportunity to speak with former Bishop Francisco Claver, SJ, DD who generously shared his sharp and wizened thoughts on questions of culture and environment, especially in the Cordillera, his cultural origin.

Promoting social entrepreneurship

It would be a challenge for participants at an upcoming Jesuit forum to reconcile two apparently opposing views on sustainable development, says the dean of a Jesuit school in Manila. (Jeffrey Asuncion, ucanews.com)

Video - Part 2 of interview with ESSC founder, Fr Pedro Walpole

The second of a two part interview with Fr Pedro Walpole SJ, founder of the Environmental Science for Social Change - which aims to use scientific data on the environment to advocate for changes for poor communities susceptible to natural disaster - by Australian newspaper The Age journalist Martin Flanagan.

Video - Part 1 of interview with ESSC founder, Fr Pedro Walpole

Part one of a two part interview with Fr Pedro Walpole SJ, about the founding of the Environmental Science for Social Change - which aims to use scientific data on the environment to advocate for changes for poor communities susceptible to natural disaster.

Kerala bishops want ‘eco-friendly’ feasts

Bishops in India’s Kerala state have asked Catholics to celebrate parish feasts in an eco-friendly manner and avoid commercializing them.

Mining drama unfolds in the southern Philippines

As 30 June 2010 approaches … a Mindanawon drama with national repercussions unfolds in a town called Tampakan. (Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar, MindaNews)

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