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April 24, 2020

Polish Church warns of water shortages during pandemic

Poland’s Catholic bishops have urged nationwide prayers for rain, amid warnings huge areas of farmland could be ruined by drought during the Covid-19 pandemic. “Our homeland has struggled with the coronavirus epidemic, as the state makes efforts to maintain the economy, sustain jobs and rescue those wrestling with financial problems,” Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, president of... Read More
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April 1, 2020

Vatican publishes document on right to water access

Access to clean water is an essential human right that must be defended and protected, the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development said in a new document. Defending the right to clean water is part of the Catholic Church’s promotion of the common good, ‘not some particular national agenda’, the dicastery said, calling for... Read More
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August 7, 2019

Mumbai Catholics open churches for thousands stranded by flooding

Catholic churches and institutions in flood-hit Mumbai opened their doors to accommodate thousands of people stranded in the city by heavy rain and flooded streets. Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, and Syro-Malabar Bishop Thomas Elavanal of Kalyan, India, asked their parish priests on 5th August to help stranded and homeless people as heavy rain... Read More
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February 14, 2019

Man City fans help bring clean water to impoverished Indian children

Manchester City supporters have transformed impoverished children’s access to clean water in an Indian mega-city which is fast running out. The Premier League champions part-funded an initiative to provide safe supplies in the rapidly growing metropolis of Bangalore, which is predicted to go dry next year. Teachers at a state school wore bright red saris... Read More
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December 3, 2018

Ukrainian Catholics fear new war after naval clashes

Catholics in Ukraine said people fear a full-scale war with Russia, after a naval confrontation prompted the imposition of martial law in Ukraine’s eastern regions. Meanwhile, an official with Caritas Ukraine said local inhabitants had begun hoarding food, water and candles in preparation for a “sudden escalation” in events. Fr Grzegorz Semenkov, chancellor of the... Read More
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October 9, 2018

Unprecedented action needed to curb global warming

Countries must take ‘unprecedented’ action to slash carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and limit dangerous global warming, a key report has warned. Impacts of climate change, from droughts to rising seas, will be less extreme if temperature rises are curbed at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels than if they climb to 2C, the UN-backed study... Read More
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September 18, 2018

Catholic Charities distributes disaster relief to areas hit by Florence

The Carolinas were hard hit with record rainfall and flooding rivers from tropical storm Florence since it made landfall on 14th September. And although the storm was downgraded from a hurricane to a Category 1 tropical storm, it still caused extensive water damage. At least 24 people died in storm-related incidents, tens of thousands of... Read More
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September 3, 2018

Pope: Pray, act to protect clean water, guarantee access to it

Water is a gift of God that makes life possible and yet millions of people do not have access to safe drinking water, and rivers, seas and oceans continue to be polluted, Pope Francis said. “Care for water sources and water basins is an urgent imperative,” the pope said in a message on 1st September,... Read More
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June 14, 2018

Bishops of El Salvador warn against privatising water

El Salvador’s bishops urged lawmakers to discard any plans for privatising water in the Central American country, saying the poor could not afford to pay the cost of a vital necessity. In a terse statement, issued on 12th June and titled, We will not allow the poor to die of thirst, the Salvadoran bishops’ conference... Read More
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