The Most Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church says: “The publication of this eagerly-awaited Encyclical is a major event in the shaping of the response of faith communities to ...
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The Church of Scotland welcomes Pope Francis’ wide-ranging and comprehensive encyclical on climate change. The Church has long recognised the importance of addressing climate change and is in complete agreement with Pope Francis that action must be taken without delay. ...
Read MoreCommenting on the publication of the Pope’s Encyclical letter, the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia said: “I welcome Pope Francis wide-ranging instruction, Laudato Si (Praise Be) on the care of God’s creation as a timely and profound response to what is ...
Read MorePope Francis’ first encyclical – Laudato Si: On the care for our common home – is the most radical ever written on the environment, but follows in the Church’s long tradition of teaching us to care for God’s creation, says ...
Read MoreThe President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference have welcomed the latest Papal encyclical, which focuses on the issue of climate change. The Revd Kenneth Howcroft and Gill Dascombe have issued the following statement in response: “Yesterday we represented the ...
Read MoreChristian Aid has praised Pope Francis for his call for a radical rethinking of humanity’s relationship with the earth and urged both people of faith in all walks of life, and especially politicians, to heed his appeal for action to ...
Read MoreBartholomew, 270th Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, is spiritual leader to 300 million Orthodox Christians throughout the world. “In a series of seminars organized between 1994 and 1998 on the island of Halki off the coast of Istanbul ...
Read MoreUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the release of Pope Francis’ Papal Encyclical in which the leader of the Catholic Church deplored climate change as one of the principal challenges facing humanity and called for a ‘new dialogue’ about ...
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