Forestry Department officials in Italy have just raided ivory shops in Vatican City and Abruzzo, seizing ivory religious sculptures. Here is a google translate of the press release: These are artifacts representing religious subjects made of elephant ivory. The cost of … [Read more...]
Pope Petition Proffered
"Ari P." from Canada in response to Blood Ivory: Ivory Worship has launched this online petition to Pope Benedict XVI calling upon Vatican City to sign the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and end the use of ivory in religious carvings. Now would … [Read more...]
Blood Ivory: Ivory Worship on PBS NewsHour
My interview tonight on PBS NewsHour with Hari Sreenivasan: … [Read more...]
“How pious Catholics finance African wars”
Here's some news from CatholicOnline, "How pious Catholics finance African wars." An excerpt: ....Without realizing it, many Christians, particularly Catholics in Africa and Asia, are praying for peace, praying for the environment, praying for so many good things-all while … [Read more...]
Is the Church Tossing Out Environmental Opportunity?
With all of the opportunity for good Blood Ivory represents for people in Africa (and the Philippines), not to mention for elephants, it is disconcerting that the archbishop of Cebu believes that my exposing the ivory trade results from anti-church "bias." The Archbishop … [Read more...]