{"id":6446,"date":"2023-12-03T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2023-12-03T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T16:09:43","slug":"pope-religions-to-oppose-environmental-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/03\/pope-religions-to-oppose-environmental-devastation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope: Religions To Oppose Environmental Devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was essential for all world religions to unite in opposing the \u201crapacious\u201d devastation of the environment.<br \/>\nThe 86-year-old pope had planned to preside at the opening of the Faith Pavilion at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, but a lung inflammation forced him to remain in the Vatican.<br \/>\nSecretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, read the pope\u2019s message in his place, as he did with Pope Francis\u2019 main address to the conference on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u201cReligions, as voices of conscience for humanity, remind us that we are finite creatures, possessed of a need for the infinite,\u201d the pope said, noting that a Faith Pavilion was a first at a COP conference.<br \/>\nReligions, he said, \u201cneed, urgently, to act for the sake of the environment,\u201d educate their members to \u201csober and fraternal lifestyles\u201d instead of wasteful ones and work for a return to the individual contemplation of nature\u2019s grandeur.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is an essential obligation for religions, which are called to teach contemplation, since creation is not only an ecosystem to preserve, but also a gift to embrace,\u201d Pope Francis said.<br \/>\n\u201cA world poor in contemplation will be a world polluted in soul, a world that will continue to discard people and produce waste,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nIn his main address to the conference on Saturday, Pope Francis repeated his call for the elimination of fossil fuels.<br \/>\nHundreds of Catholic institutions around the globe have announced plans to divest from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was essential for all world religions to unite in opposing the \u201crapacious\u201d devastation of the environment. The 86-year-old pope had planned to preside at the opening of the Faith Pavilion at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, but a lung inflammation forced him &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}