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She blocked the development of the Waratah coal mine, which would have accelerated climate change in Queensland, destroyed the nearly 20,000-acre Bimblebox Nature Refuge, added 1.58 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere over its lifetime, and threatened Indigenous rights and culture. Murrawah’s case, which overcame a 2023 appeal, set a precedent that enables other […]

Once upon a time there lived two friends; Elephant and Hare. There had been no rains for a long, long time, and a great famine hit the land. So, the two friends decided to sell their hides, in order to raise enough money to buy cows. The market was in a far-off land, which they

A Comboni sister Maria José Carrero Viñas from Spain shares his vocation journey. At birth, I was named Maria José after my paternal grandmother. I was seven years old when the missionary who had arrived at the parish on World Mission Day explained to us that there were many children in the world who still

For indigenous peoples, the earth is like a mother who offers her children the best that she herself can produce. Women are the producers and guardians of the common home. At Guarani ceremonies in Paraguay, shamans perform prayers in the form of a sacred dance to the rhythm of the beating (with the tacuara) of

In Latin America, not a day goes by without communities and territories being stripped of their assets to incorporate them as commodities in the markets. The aggressiveness of these systems imposes itself with asymmetric relationships based on inequality of power and abuse. This cold logic materializes in mining concessions, in the extraction of hydrocarbons, in

Activists Nonhle Mbuthuma and Sinegugu Zukulu have stopped destructive seismic testing for oil and gas off South Africa’s Eastern Cape, in an area known as the Wild Coast. Organizing their community, Nonhle and Sinegugu secured their victory by asserting the rights of the local community to protect their marine environment. By halting oil and gas

There was once a sultan who had three little sons, and no one seemed to be able to teach them anything; which greatly grieved both the sultan and his wife. One day a magician came to the sultan and said, “If I take your three boys and teach them to read and write, and make

Unmistakable geometric shapes and colours characterize the dress and lifestyle of this Zulu-based group established in South Africa. A tradition that resists, as do their initiation rites, for example. Even if in everyday life it is the Western style that has taken over. The Ndebele are originally from southern Zimbabwe, from where they left, breaking

“Do we want our children and their children to ask us: ‘Why did your generation destroy our home, when you knew that what you were doing was harmful?’ We would go to great lengths to safeguard them from anybody who would hurt them. So, we also have to protect them from living in a dysfunctional

Pope Francis has established 1 September as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, encouraging the Catholic community around the world to pray for our common home. The encyclical Laudato Si’ offers a new way of thinking about our understanding of the current planetary crisis of environmental degradation, the causes of this