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Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary | August 21, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

August 23, 2015
"We got to know our neighbors in the surrounding community in a way we probably wouldn’t have otherwise, because we did all have to work through it together. And so in these last 10 years I would say we have been much more part of the community where we’ve been a building for over a hundred years," says David duPlantier, dean of Episcopal Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans. More →

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Islamic experts' declaration urges Muslims to fight global warming - Religion News Service

August 18, 2015
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A group of Islamic experts urged the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims on Tuesday to do more to fight global warming, in a new example of religious efforts to galvanize action before a U.N. climate summit in Paris in December.In June, the world’s most important Christian leader, Pope Francis, urged world leaders to hear “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” in an encyclical on the environment for the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.Unlike Roman Catholicism, Islam is a highly decentralized religion with no single recognized authority. But Muslim experts...
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