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January 23, 2012
Environmentalists recognised in prestigious list of the world's 500 most influential Muslims
Muslim environmentalists - including the 'Green Grand Mufti of Egypt' Sheikh Dr Ali Goma'a, who attended ARC's Windsor Celebration - are included in a list of the 500 most prominent Muslims of the past year.  |
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January 20, 2012
People of faith urged to avoid 'cruelty' eggs
A leading animal welfare campaigner has called on people of faith to exercise caution when buying eggs from shops and supermarkets. |
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January 12, 2012
'Sins against nature are sins against God': Kerala bishops
The Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council says Catholics should include sins against the environment when they visit the confessional. The directive came in a recent meeting during which the council finalised its ecological mission statement. |
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January 10, 2012
ARC blogs for Club of Rome about how belief is vital for saving the world
As the Club of Rome - a global thinktank made up of independent leading personalities from politics, business and science - marks its 40th birthday, it invites ARC's Martin Palmer to offer it a challenge for the future. |
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January 3, 2012
BBC features St Albans and green pilgrimage this Christmas
When BBC Radio 4 wanted something really special for the Christmas Day edition of its flagship Sunday programme, it decided to focus on what it means to be a pilgrim and, in particular, what it means to be a green pilgrim. And where better to turn than the cathedral city of St Albans, a founder member of the Green Pilgrimage Network? |
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January 3, 2012
Prince Charles plants a mango tree in Tanzania
A tree-planting project run by one of ARC's partners, the Northern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania, received a helping hand from Prince Charles during his recent royal visit to East Africa; His Royal Highness planted a mango tree. |
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December 16, 2011
Faith leaders spearhead climate change challenge
Faith leaders joined forces this month to urge decision-makers to act in the interest of humanity to reach an agreement on global climate change. African faith leaders played a major role in lobbying at the United Nations' conference in Durban, South Africa. |
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December 13, 2011
Touching hearts and minds: faith environmental action
Faith groups have a vital role to play in efforts to protect the environment, ARC Secretary-General Martin Palmer told a prestigious US gathering of conservationists and scientists. |
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December 9, 2011
Bhutan Compassion & Conservation conference: report
The first Compassion and Conservation conference in Bhutan could not have gone better. Sixty-three high lamas, monks and nuns from throughout the country gathered in Thimphu, by invitation from Dratshang Lhentshog, the Commission for Monastic Affairs in Bhutan. The report is now available online. |
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November 30, 2011
Faiths telling stories about how we should treat strangers
There are increasing number of ecological migrants in the world. ARC has begun to explore the issues of how we treat strangers, by looking at story-telling within the faiths. And last week, in London, six storytellers told powerful stories from Buddhist, Christian, Daoist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Zoroastrian traditions, drawing both on formal scriptures and informal mythologies and folk tales. |
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November 2, 2011
Green Guide to the Hajj launched at Assisi, Italy
The first guide to an environmentally sustainable Hajj has been launched to encourage Muslim pilgrims - now arriving in Mecca (Makkah) in Saudi Arabia for this year's pilgrimage - to reduce their impact on the Earth. |
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November 1, 2011
PRESS RELEASE: Green Pilgrimage Network launches with joy, hope, faith and practical plans
A ban on cars on pilgrimage routes; solar panels for cathedral roofs; provision of fresh clean, water for pilgrims, and the planting of thousands of trees around sacred sites - these are just some of the initiatives which the founder members of the Green Pilgrimage Network today pledged to implement. |
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