St. Columba Parish invites people to return to church
St. Columba Parish invites Catholics to return to the church.
The parish offers a program called “Landings.” In several sessions, a small group of active parishioners who are exploring their faith, meet with a small group of inactive or returning Catholics to share and explore their faith together.
For more information, call 247-0044 or email landings@stcolumbacatholic.org.
Har Shalom to offer Hanukkah party, potluck
Congregation Har Shalom’s annual Hanukkah Party and Potluck Latke dinner will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 13.
Prayers will be chanted, dreidels will spin and songs will be sung. Participants should bring their Menorah, candles for the seventh day, latkes or a dish to share.
The congregation is at 2537 County Road 203. For more information, visit http://harshalomdurango.org.
At Paris climate talks, cleric mounts ‘green jihad’
PARIS – Imam Ibrahim Saidy brought his symposiums and his monthly fasting to the Paris climate talks, hoping to call attention to the problems and injustice of global warming.
He calls it “green jihad.”
The Muslim cleric from Norway had idea of an environmental holy movement a year ago. He uses the word jihad in its meaning of a struggle to do good, as opposed to extremists’ use of it to signify a holy war.
“The green jihad is to protect and save lives,” Saidy told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “To make people aware of the dangers of climate change and fight for climate justice.”
Saidy is part of a growing interfaith religious movement seeking action by governments to fight global warming. For the past two years, about 10,000 religious activists have been fasting on the first day of the month to call attention to global warming, according to Caroline Bader of the Lutheran World Federation.
First Baptists to host ‘Community Christmas’
“A Durango Community Christmas” will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Dec. 12 at First Baptist Church, 332 E. 11th St.
Food and clothes will be available to people in need. The church will collect monetary donations for food and winter coats before Dec. 12.
For more information, call 247-0624.
Herald Staff & Associated Press
