Title

Trees for the Earth

Description

The Catholic community is joining with the Earth Day Network to help reach the goal of planting 7.8 billion trees by 2020. This would equate to one tree per person on earth. Pope Francis's recent encyclical, Laudato Si, focuses on the importance of trees and their benefits to the environment as well as human kind.

Catholics Join Earth Day Efforts

Date Created

April 22, 2016

Creator(s)

Brian Roewe

Denomination

Christian

Sub-Tradition

Roman Catholic

Audience

All audiences/General public

Rights

The original html version of this resource was accessed at https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/people/eco-catholic/catholics-join-earth-day-effort-plant-78-billion-trees on October 7, 2019.

Holiday

Earth Day

Issues

english Ecological Restoration