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Top Vatican official: climate change action is a moral imperative
2016-02-02 02:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Mhortly after Pope Benedict XVIs surprise resignation in February 2013, Vatican insiders started making predictions. The next pope, many said, would be starkly different. He would hail from a continent where Catholicism was spreading the fastest. He would be African. He would be the Ghanaian Archbishop of the Cape Coast. He would be Peter Turkson. The choice, we know now, was dramatic. The cardinals in the Sistine Chapel departed Europe for the first time and selected a Latin American Pope Francis...
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Vatican appoints external auditor
2015-12-05 22:37:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
For the first time the Vatican submits its finances to an external auditor as part of Pope Francis' bid to bring greater transparency to the Catholic Church.
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Vatican and Pope oblivious to the more than 250 dissidents arrested in Cuba during papal visit
2015-09-26 16:36:10| Wireless - Topix.net
According to the Vatican and Papa Che , they were not aware of any arrests of dissidents that took place during the papal visit to Cuba. Apparently they must have all experienced really bad cell phone reception in Cuba and at Fidel Castro's compound and no one could seem to remember the WiFi network passwords, preventing them from getting the news of the arrests that were virtually broadcast live to the entire world as they happened.
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Vatican ropes in global leaders to fight climate change, modern slavery
2015-07-26 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Catholic News Agency: Drawing dozens of mayors from major cities worldwide to discuss the link between slavery and climate change, this week's Vatican conference showed how secular leaders are responding to Pope Francis' lead in protecting the environment and, more importantly, the vulnerable. The Church has a role to protect the vulnerable, and if we follow the words of the Pope, we actually bring into account those who create the suffering of others, said Kevin Hyland, United Kingdom Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner...
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Mayors Epiphany at the Vatican: Climate Debate Is Over for the Rest of the World
2015-07-23 19:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: It is often said that travel broadens horizons. Such was the case when Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges left the City of Lakes for Rome this week. About half-way through her second day at the Vatican, attending an international conference of mayors organized by Pope Francis that began Tuesday, Hodges had an epiphany: climate change isnt up for debate in the rest of the world. [I] just realized that climate change deniers cast a pall on the conversation in the United States," Hodges, a Democrat,...
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