This website is best viewed with CSS and JavaScript enabled.

Caring for the environment 'a moral imperative,' says bishop

Posted on: August 13, 2008 2:16 PM
Related Categories: acen, Lambeth Conference 2008

Caring for the environment 'a moral imperative,' says bishop

Climate change affecting 'the poorest of the poor'

Anglican bishops gathered here for the Lambeth Conference are preparing a statement expressing their concern for the devastating effects of climate change which they say are affecting the world's poorest countries the most and urging churches to advocate for the environment as a moral imperative.

Churches have "no option" but to care for "God's environment" because "this is our core business theologically," Bishop George Browning, of the diocese of Canberra and Goulburn told a press conference.

The full article can be found here