Pope Francis to UN: The environment is sacred, like humanity
c. 2015 Religion News Service
NEW YORK (RNS) Pope Francis told world leaders gathered at the United Nations on Friday (September 25) they must work to protect creation because “a true ‘right of the environment’ does exist”—a right he said was bound up with a moral duty to assure the basic needs of “the vast ranks of the excluded.”
The global environment and the world’s powerless, he added “are closely interconnected and made increasingly fragile by dominant political and economic relationships.
