Vatican City, June 8, 2023: A young Indian climate activist has urged Pope Francis to help bring peace in Manipur, her troubled state in northeastern India. Licypriya Kangujam on June 5 met the Pope and briefed him about the ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur. The 11-year-old girl also submitted aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct. 13, 2021: Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese, a leading American journalist, suggests that Pope Francis should send Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as his representative to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The Conference of Parties, or COP26, is scheduled to meetContinue Reading
Milan, Sept. 29, 2021: Pope Francis sent a video message to some 400 young people from 197 countries participating in a three-day Youth4Climate meet taking place in Milan, northern Italy. Technical and political solutions to humanity’s crises, such as climate change and the environment, are not enough unless there isContinue Reading
By Shalini S Kozhikode: Fifteen-year-old Noora Zaineb just finished her ninth-grade annual exams but promotion to the next grade is not the only thing she is looking forward to this year. Noora has made planting trees her mission. With the help of her father, Zaineb is on a mission toContinue Reading
New Delhi: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on February 19 extended support to Disha Ravi as the Indian climate activist was sent to three-day judicial custody in the connection the toolkit case. Retweeting Fridays for Future (FFF) India’s tweet, Thunberg wrote, “Freedom of speech and the right to peaceful protestContinue Reading
Stockholm, Jan 31, 2020: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg and the global protest movement “Fridays for Future” were nominated on January 30 for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize by two Swedish lawmakers. “Greta Thunberg is a climate activist, and the main reason she deserves the Nobel Peace Prize is thatContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, September 28, 2019: Students of St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology, Patna have expressed solidarity with the Global Climate Strike. They were among millions of students of colleges and schools who on September 27 took to streets at more than 4,500 demonstrations in atContinue Reading
