December 14, 2015
GSR Today - The 10 sisters who have been training in Rome are off to Sicily today to minister to the spiritual needs and help build bridges between refugees and the Sicilian population.
December 14, 2015
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December 12, 2015
COP21 Paris - World leaders here Saturday evening, Dec. 12, reached the first-ever globally binding deal to address climate change, concluding two weeks of the "most complicated and difficult," and, at times sleepless, negotiations.
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December 11, 2015
COP21 Paris - A 20-minute train ride and 10-minute walk from central Paris north to the French capital’s 19th arrondissement, a different conference of the parties has occurred each night during the second week of COP21, the United Nations climate change conference.
December 11, 2015
Sr. Consuelo Morales, a member of the Congregation of Our Lady: Canonesses of St. Augustine, was awarded Mexico's top human rights award Dec. 10 for her work with the families of missing persons.
by GSR Staff
December 11, 2015
"Lo, the days are coming! The rough ways will be smoothed! Death will be destroyed forever and all tears will be wiped away!"
David Agren covers Mexico as a freelance correspondent for Catholic News Service. His reporting also regularly appears in the Guardian, USA Today and the Washington Post. A native of Canada, he has lived in Mexico City for the past 11 years.
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David Agren cubre México como corresponsal independiente para Catholic News Service. Sus reportajes también aparecen regularmente en The Guardian, USA Today y The Washington Post. Originario de Canadá, ha vivido en la Ciudad de México durante los últimos 11 años.
by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
December 11, 2015
As the movie "Spotlight" comes to a close, something other than the credits flash up on the screen: a long list of dioceses around the country and the world that have been consumed by clergy sexual abuse scandals and cover-ups. The list goes on for pages and, sitting in a theater Thanksgiving weekend, on the eve of the beginning of Advent, a silence hung over the crowd.
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by Elise D. García
Contributor
December 11, 2015
COP21 Paris - As the penultimate day of the Paris climate summit drew to a close Friday, Dec. 11, chants could be heard from one of the forum areas in the center of the public Climate Generations space adjacent to the official COP21 site: "Black Lives Matter!" "One-point-five to stay alive!" "Keep the oil in the soil!"
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December 10, 2015
COP21 Paris - Outside the main venue here at COP21, as diplomats inside waited to receive the latest draft of a potential global climate deal, Mercy Sr. Aine O’Connor stood surrounded by a throng of environmental activists eager to hear what she had to say. “We are hearing and heeding the cry of persons and earth impacted by fracking,” she said of peoples in Argentina, Australia and the U.S. who have reached out to the Sisters of Mercy.