Category: Turkey

No one is exempt from the “indisputable obligation” to protect the planet, says the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople. Bartholomew I affirmed that climate change is the biggest threat for all types of life on earth in a message for World Environment Day, sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program. And urged people, “independently of their religious origins, to take the ecological crisis into consideration.” He added: “Today, more than ever, there is an indisputable obligation for everyone, that of realizing that environmental considerations on our planet are not just romantic ideals of a small group.”