Photo: Pedro Sanchez from Ecuador, Padre Juan Carlos from Colombia, Constanza Carvajal from Putumayo; Mattes Tempelmann from MISEREOR, Mikaell Carvalho from Justiça nos Trilhos; Guilherme Cavali from Church and Mining; Javiera Martínez from LMN; Kelly Silva from...
Edited version of a ‘Divest from Mining’ comunique at https://divestinmining.org/en-sintonia-con-la-asamblea-eclesial-latinoamericana-la-vida-religiosa-de-america-latina-se-une-por-una-economia-samaritana/, translated by Holly Jones. More than 100 Catholic...
In recent weeks, Dom Vicente Ferreira, Catholic Bishop of Brumadinho in Brazil, was in Europe speaking about the continuing impacts of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse there in January 2019, which killed 272 people. The iron ore mine at Brumadinho is owned and...
Pope Francis recently published an ‘encyclical letter’ on ecology and climate change. Now he has commented more specifically on mining and its impact on communities. Pope Francis: Mining industry in need of ‘a radical paradigm change’ The...
By Henry Longbottom Henry Longbottom SJ is a member of a Roman Catholic religious order known as the Jesuits (to which Pope Francis belongs) and is currently studying for the priesthood. He is actively involved in London Mining Network. When I became a Catholic seven...
