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Kim Burgo, center, vice president of disaster operations at Catholic Charities USA, assesses damage in Florida with staff from Catholic Charities of the St. Petersburg Diocese in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. (Courtesy of Catholic Charities USA/Jeremy Mines)

Faith

As climate intensifies weather disasters, Catholic Charities deploys for recovery

The recovery across the South from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, powerful storms that struck back to back in early autumn, are among 177 open disasters nationwide that Catholic Charities has been addressing.

Carol Brzozowski

The United Nations biodiversity summit, known as COP16, is being held in Cali, Colombia. The international meeting is the first since countries in 2022 adopted a landmark deal aimed at halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems around the globe. (Flickr/UN Biodiversity)

Science

Faith coalition at UN biodiversity summit presses countries to deliver on pledges

Among delegates attending the latest United Nations biodiversity summit, called COP16, is a coalition of faith groups who say they aim to parcel out a larger space, and voice, for religion in conservation efforts.

Brian Roewe

Illustration of a voter depositing a green ballot (Dreamstime/Roman Samborskyi)

Politics

In battleground states, faith groups call environmental voters to the polls

Several organizations are joining in a mission to identify low-propensity voters who care about the environment and motivate them simply to head to the polls.

Brian Roewe

Baka young people are seen in a courtyard in front of traditional Baka huts known as mungulu in Elango village in Cameroon's East Region. (Angel Ngwe)

Justice

In Africa's Congo Basin, Indigenous peoples lose homes to conservation efforts

As nations meet in Colombia for the COP16 summit under the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, African bishops and other religious leaders are joining calls to protect Indigenous rights in conservation efforts

Ngala Killian Chimtom

Mary Beth Keenan's daughter touches daffodils in their yard. (Courtesy of Mary Beth Keenan)

Small Earth Stories

Faith and a forest preschool help our family care for creation

Mary Beth Keenan

After "Bluey," the Holy Spirit and Google led this mom to enroll her 3-year-old in a forest school, her whole family learned more about caring for creation and cultivating community — with human and nonhuman friends.

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