The Edmund Rice Centre in conjunction with the Pacific Calling Partnership next week will be taking a delegation of Australian community leaders to Kiribati. The delegation will be led by one of the most senior Indigenous leaders in Australia Patrick Dodson and ERC director Phil Glendenning, and will include representatives from Indigenous communities, the arts, media and education.

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In a rare interview, zen buddhist master Thich Nhat Hahn warns of the threat to civilisation from climate change and the spiritual revival that is needed to avert catastrophe.  (The Guardian)

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In early March, just days after the Kingdom of Morocco announced plans for a landmark environmental charter called “the first commitment of its kind in Africa and the Arab world,” Mohamed Attaoui was sentenced to two years in prison in the Atlas mountains. His crime? Speaking out against illegal logging of shrinking cedar forests and corruption among the ranks of the forest service and local government officials.  (The Guardian)

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The Dalai Lama said global warming could be to blame for devastating flooding and mudslides across Asia as he offered prayers on Saturday for victims of the disasters. (AFP)

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The world should re-evaluate its economic growth outlook to save it from environmental crisis, stresses Hindu statesman Rajan Zed.  (Merinews)

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This week in Melbourne, members of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities met to share the understandings of each of their traditions at a conference called 'Greening with God'.  Panel members on the Sunday Nights program included Mark Peterson (Islamic Council of Victoria), Rabbi Shamir Kaplan (Jewish-Christian-Muslim Association) and Anne Lanyon (Columban Mission Institute).  (Sunday Nights)

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