World's churches go green and rally to cause

[Kadie]

World's churches go green and rally to cause
By Paul Majendie
6 minutes ago


LONDON (Reuters) - Dire warnings from top scientists that mankind is to blame for global warming set off alarm bells everywhere -- but many of the world's churches have already "gone green" in the race to save the planet.

For Christians, Jews and Muslims, the message is the same -- mankind has "stewardship" of the earth which it has a duty to protect for future generations.

And environmentalists hailed churches for stepping up to the plate with a real sense of urgency.

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A group of 85 evangelical Christian leaders this month kicked off a campaign to mobilize religious conservatives to combat global warming.

With full-page newspaper advertisements and a television ad, they declared "With God's help, we can stop global warming for our kids, our world and our Lord."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/lf_nm/religion_environment_dc_2

[kestrel91316]

1. The fundies won't get on board with this. Rapture is just around the corner,

and the material world is an EVIL place that SHOULD be destroyed, according to them.

[porphyrian]

2. Good. - n/t

[applegrove]

3. This is great news.