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The concept of integral ecology is at the center of Pope Francis's call for the renewal of our common home. However, throughout Laudato Si', this concept remains somewhat under-defined. In this article, I clarify both the structural and qualitative dimensions of Francis's concept by demonstrating the ways in which it aligns with Gustavo Gutierrez's classic concept of integral liberation. In so doing, I argue that through the concept of 'integral ecology' Francis calls for the radical conversion of the political and cultural dimensions of the global system, a metanoia that he roots in a vision of God's desire for humanity and the earth. Keywords Gustavo Gutierrez, Pope Francis, Laudato Si', integral ecology, integral liberation, liberation theology, sustainable development, option for the poor, option for the earth, At the center of the political vision of Laudato Si' is the concept of integral ecology, to which Pope Francis devotes an entire chapter (chapter 4, 'Integral Ecology'). In so [...]

The discovery of 5000 illuminated documents written about 600 years shows that Africa had a literate culture long before scholars previously believed. The papers are in the personal library of Islamic scholar Abdel Qader in Timbuktu, Mali and 40 years after their discovery, only 2% of the manuscripts have been translated.

The Arabic publishing industry is facing a great shortage of contemporary writers and relatively smaller quantities of books are published. The prevailing publishing depression in the Arab is believed to hamper the routine scholarship due to the difficulty faced by professors to find out what other professors are doing in another Arab country.

Byline: DANIEL DEL CASTILLO Israel and Jordan announced last month that they were teaming up to build one of the Middle East's most advanced scientific-research institutions, on 150 acres of [...]

Byline: DANIEL DEL CASTILLO The government of the United Arab Emirates has released a report that sharply criticizes its higher-education institutions and blames them, in part, for the sustained levels [...]

Byline: Daniel del Castillo Since the suicide car bombing outside the Baghdad headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross last month, several international charities have evacuated their expatriate [...]

Byline: DANIEL del CASTILLO The Qatar Foundation has donated $15-million to help rebuild Iraq's battered colleges and universities. The gift from the private, nonprofit foundation in the Persian Gulf emirate [...]

Byline: Daniel del Castillo About 20 miles south of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, the landscape changes from dense, lush palm groves and brackish canals to vast expanses of sand interrupted [...]

Byline: Daniel del Castillo The aftermath of the United States' invasion of Iraq has taken its toll on the fund-raising efforts of several international charities. As a result, many groups [...]

Byline: DANIEL DEL CASTILLO An academic publishing house in the United States is demanding the immediate release of Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, an Iraqi scientist whom U.S. military forces arrested [...]

Byline: DANIEL DEL CASTILLO Jordan has re-established its Ministry of Higher Education, seeking to regulate universities that many say have drifted into chaos. The ministry, eliminated in the mid-1990s by [...]