Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A Second Reading (Alternative reading)

Refrain: In Ramah is heard the sound of moaning, of bitter weeping!

Rachel mourns her children. She refuses to be consoled because her children are no more.

• Scientists say the homes of billions are on track to become uninhabitable as the earth temperature continues to rise.

• Water levels on the Mississippi River are nearing historic lows, triggering a drinking water emergency in Louisiana as salty ocean water flows upstream.

• A ten-year-old boy fights his seventh Covid -19 infection. He also has long-haul Covid.

• Nearly half of flowering plant species face the threat of extinction.

Refrain

• UN report finds 165 million were pushed into poverty over the past 3 years.

• 2023 migrant deaths spike in El Paso Sector.

• Risk of nuclear weapon use higher than at any time since the Cold War, Disarmament Affairs Chief warns Security Council.

• Across the world, 6,933,583 people have died so far from the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as of Nov 1, 2023. Over 1 million deaths from COVID-19 in US.

Refrain

• Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with “forever chemicals” according to a new study from the US Geological Survey.

• The risk of simultaneous crop failures are occurring in multiple regions across the globe, driven by climate change, a catastrophe that poses an underestimated threat to the global food supply.