Interfaith climate ‘fast’ backed by Catholic Church

The French Catholic Church has joined local Orthodox, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist religious leaders in supporting the “Fast for the Climate”  campaign, writes Tom Heneghan.

Supporters commit themselves to fasting on the first day of each month until the next United Nations climate conference in Paris in December 2015.

Nicolas Hulot, the French ­ecologist who is organising the conference, said he hoped to enlist Pope Francis in the worldwide campaign launched by the Lutheran World Federation.  Speaking for the French bishops, Bishop Marc Stenger said: “The Church calls on the state and local governments to take decisive steps against climate change.”