LONDON - 2 April 2008 - 210 words
Religious to lobby Parliament over climate change
Members of religious orders will lobby
Parliament on Wednesday 23 April, calling on MPs and ministers
to "kick the carbon habit" and to strengthen the UK
Climate Change Bill.
In 2005, hundreds of religious men and women gathered at Westminster
to lobby their MPs to make poverty history. The success of that
event, and attention it attracted, has encouraged them to raise
their voices again.
Sr Loretta Madigan from JPIC Links and the Faithful Companions
of Jesus will be attending the lobby.
She said: "As religious women and men, we are called to remind
rich governments, such as ours, of their responsibility for tackling
climate change because of Its impact on the world's poorest people.
Climate change threatens to undo decades of development work and
I am attending this lobby because I believe it's vital that we
speak up now before it's too late."
"You don't need to be an expert to your lobby your MP"
added Vikki Mills, CAFOD's parliamentary officer. "We're
hoping that many religious men and women will join this lobby
to show the government how important it is to pass a strong Climate
Change Bill."
To register for this event, simply email
campaign@CAFOD.org.uk with your name and address, and the name
of your Congregation or Community.
The lobby starts at 11am at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
and lasts till 5pm.
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