Environment

Philippine diocese appeals for aid after quake

At least four killed, dozens injured as 7-magnitude tremor strikes northern provinces

Monsoon pounds Pakistan port city

Karachi has received nearly triple its recent average rains and more than four times that of two decades ago

Climate crisis 'is worsening' on Korean peninsula

Record-breaking heat waves and heavy rains are causing extensive devastation in the region

Pope seeks ‘ecological conversion’ during Season of Creation

Climate crisis calls us to repent, modify our lifestyles and destructive systems, says pope

Karachi Christians left reeling from floods, evictions

Caritas Pakistan working alongside the government to support affected communities

South Korea’s nuclear power U-turn irks Catholics

Groups vow to continue protests until government returns to phasing out South Korea's nuclear power plants

Filipino environmentalists slam ‘illegal’ giant clam deals

Unregulated poaching and trading threaten survival of giant clams and endanger ecosystem, activist says

Francis, a pope who saves the creation

As we see ecological disasters caused by climate change, we must heed Pope Francis’s call to save the planet

Eight killed in flash floods at Indian Kashmir pilgrimage site

At least 10,000 people were assembled at the Amarnath shrine, located at an altitude of 3,900 meters in the Himalayas

Vatican joins UN treaty on climate change

The Holy See has also declared its intention to formally join the 2015 Paris Agreement

Pakistan monsoon floods claim at least 77 lives

Teams from Caritas Pakistan mobilize to support government rescue and relief efforts

Catholic farmers go organic to ease Korean peninsula food crisis

Church-sponsored initiative develops ‘life agriculture’ by employing eco-friendly methods amid climate emergency

Vietnamese Catholics remember martyrs with passion

Indian Christians challenge bill against ‘mass conversion’

75 years of Indian independence and the outlook's bleak

Pope Francis urges help for drought-hit Somalia

Cambodian opposition politician faces defamation rap

Egyptians mourn 41 dead in Cairo Coptic church fire