Orthodox and Other Religious Leaders Issue Environmental Appeal at Vatican Summit [+Video]

Pravoslavie ^ | 10/5/21

[marshmallow]

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Participants in a religious leaders’ summit in Rome yesterday made a joint appeal to the international community to take urgent measures to protect and heal the environment.

The event, organized by the embassies of Great Britain and Italy at the Holy See, was timed to the upcoming 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, and was attended by the leaders of various Christian denominations, world religions, and diplomatic corps.

Orthodox representatives included His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Russian Church’s Department for External Church Relations, and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Met. Hilarion told RIA-Novosti that Romanian priest Fr. Ioan Sauca also presented, though he was representing not the Romanian Church, but the World Council of Churches, for which he is currently acting General Secretary.

The environmental appeal was also signed by Pope Francis and representatives of other Christian confessions, as well as representatives from Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Confucianism, reports TASS.

The appeal reads:

We ask the whole world to achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions as soon as possible, to prevent the average global temperature from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. We appeal to the richest countries not only to take the necessary measures to preserve the environment on their territory, but also to provide financial assistance to the most vulnerable countries to help them cope with climate challenges.

[MNJohnnie]

Lying is still a sin “Christian leaders”.

[DocRock]

We’re told to watch the signs. The signs say ‘EXIT’

[JoanSmith]

Ecumenical events are nonsense to Orthodox Christians. Bishop Hilarion lost all credibility when he claimed not taking the experimental vax was a “sin”. Now he’s getting into this garbage? Okay, now I know. There is a long history of Church hierarchy straying from the Narrow Path. Anaxios.