Churches To Ring Bells For Global Warming
Posted on: Thursday, 12 November 2009, 12:25 CST
Churches around the world have been challenged to let their bells ring out during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 in order to highlight the need for action on global climate change.
“Churches around the world are trying to ring home the message that climate protection is an ethical and spiritual issue,” the World Council of Churches said in a written statement.
"On that Sunday, midway through the UN summit, the WCC invites churches around the world to use their bells, drums, gongs or whatever their tradition offers to call people to prayer and action in the face of climate change."
"By sounding their bells or other instruments 350 times, participating churches will symbolize the 350 parts per million that mark the safe upper limit for CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere according to many scientists," it said.
The WCC is comprised of 348 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican churches representing about 560 million Christians in 110 countries.
"This is the last chance the world has to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius," said Alexi Barnett, campaign officer for Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund.
The group advises churches to begin ringing their bells at 3 p.m. local time.
“A chain of chimes and prayers will be stretching in a time-line from the South Pacific – where the day first begins and where the effects of climate change are already felt today – to Denmark and across the world,” said the WCC.
"In some countries, the question has been raised whether churches have the right to use their bells for what may be considered to be a political campaign," said Guillermo Kerber, WCC program executive on climate change.
"Those who support the campaign see the care of creation and of people's lives and livelihoods threatened by climate change more as an ethical and spiritual issue that, of course, has political implications, not in a partisan sense but referring to the common good," he said.
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