Caring for God's Creation is an inherent part of religious life. From mountaintops to forests, green pastures to still waters, stars in the sky to lilies of the field, we experience the gift of Creation. With God's Earth experiencing environmental problems, many religious Americans are seeking to respond through their faith.
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment brings together a diverse alliance of faith institutions and leaders in order to bring voice and action on behalf of caring for God's Creation. NRPE offers resources and accounts of how people of faith are acting upon God's mandate to be stewards of God's Earth. NRPE also fosters the religious voice on environmental issues.
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment brings together a diverse alliance of faith institutions and leaders in order to bring voice and action on behalf of caring for God's Creation. NRPE offers resources and accounts of how people of faith are acting upon God's mandate to be stewards of God's Earth. NRPE also fosters the religious voice on environmental issues.
Faith Groups Call for Monument ProtectionJewish, Evangelical and Christian groups opposed Trump's actions to reduce Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. In January, Jewish leaders urged Trump to reverse course. These statements follow on the heels of faith organizations responding to the Trump Administration's executive order on the Antiquities Act including a statement by Creation Justice Ministries. View the letter here. Evangelicals also responded with a statement from EEN. In a letter to President Trump, prominent Jewish leaders call for protecting Bears Ears National Monument and the Antiquities Act.
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Religious Community Calls for Arctic ProtectionCreation Justice Ministries' executive director Shantha Ready Alonso offered testimony on protecting the Arctic Refuge this month during a BLM hearing in DC. Black Church leaders and religious organizations reacted to news that the Bureau of Land Management (under the Department of the Interior) plans to undermine the Methane Waste Rule but rescinding pollution protections from methane gas waste on public lands. Click here to view the black church leader letter. Click here to view the Nevada black church leader letter. Click here to view the religious organizational sign on.
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Faithful Earth Day CelebrationsCelebrations of Earth Day were held around the world on April 22. Creation Justice Ministries created a 2018 Earth Day Sunday resources with the theme of "Sense of Place." The Catholic Climate Covenant has a Earth Day 2018 guide entitled "Beyond a Throwaway Culture." Interfaith Power and Light highlighted its Faith Climate Action Week. The Evangelical Environmental Network is promoting its worship resources for Earth Day Sunday. Sisters of Mercy is calling on the faithful this Earth Day to use less plastic. Click here for ELCA Presiding BIshop's statement.
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