By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Thursday, 11 September 2008
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage. Continue reading Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
Daily Archives: September 11, 2008
Zimbabwean archbishop reports on plight of his country
Archbishop Robert Ndlovu, Catholic Archbishop of Harare and president of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops, Conference made the following speech at a roundtable hosted by the Denis Hurley Peace Institute, an associate body of the Southern African Catholic Bishops, Conference: Continue reading Zimbabwean archbishop reports on plight of his country
Bishops seek end to immigration enforcement raids
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) — If federal immigration officials cannot create more “humane” conditions when making enforcement raids against undocumented immigrants, then “these enforcement raids should be abandoned,” said Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration. Continue reading Bishops seek end to immigration enforcement raids
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