Religion & Faith Take Center Stage
DUBAI — World religions and religious leaders will be crucial to achieving the goals of the United Nations and its member governments in what they describe as an existential battle against man-made climate change. That was the message delivered by a growing coalition of priests, prelates, holy men, monks, bishops, imams, rabbis, witch doctors, shamans, ancestor worshippers, and other assorted spiritual figures assembled at the UN’s 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) on global warming. All vowed that their flocks would be joining the holy war on global warming, too.
Religion was more central to this year’s “climate” summit than ever before. In fact, for the first time ever, the UN gathering featured a “faith pavilion” hosted by the UN Environment Programme and dozens of religious groups. The space was dedicated exclusively to harnessing the religions of the world in the battle against alleged man-made global warming. Countless prayers for “climate justice” and “green energy” went up from the summit to countless deities, with believers from widely divergent religious traditions locking arms in the fight to save “Mother Earth” from humanity.
“We ardently implore all decision-makers assembled at COP28 to seize this decisive moment and to act with urgency, weaving a tapestry of shared action and profound responsibility,” explained a statement by top religious leaders from around the world representing faiths including Islam, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and more before the summit began. “The urgency of the hour demands that we act swiftly, collaboratively, and resolutely to heal our wounded world and preserve the splendor of our common home.”
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