Churches use Lent season to raise awareness on climate change

[hrmjustin]

World Council of Churches

{WCC] Lent, a season for prayers and reflections for Christians around the world has become an opportunity for the churches to respond to climate change, an issue which deeply impacts the communities they serve.

It is therefore significant that a recent report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has come out on 31 March, in middle of the Lent season. This report brings in focus the impact of climate change, options of adaptation, and assessment of the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems and communities.

This report, with its detailed analysis describes the impact of climate change, warning that the situation will get worst in the 21st century. The poor in countries of the South will suffer more from climate change, while being faced with food insecurity, lack of access to water, displacements and increased conflicts.

The IPCC report is important for the churches, who are witnessing effects of climate change on communities, making climate justice a priority in their pastoral plans.

http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2014/04/churches-use-lent-season-to-raise-awareness-on-climate-change.aspx

[goldent]

1. This is a great cause for the Churches

and may foreshadow the direction of activism in the Churches. I know the RCC has an official doctrine relating to conservation of Earth's resources and global warming, but I don't hear much about it.

[hrmjustin]

2. I wish the clergy of all churches would put more emphasis on this instead of the culture war.