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Acapulco (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Acapulco has published a letter on the occasion of the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change. "We know that Catholic organizations such as Caritas Internationalis and the International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, representing over 180 agencies, are actively participating in this summit,” says the text, “and have launched an appeal for reaching fair, effective, and necessary agreements to ensure a healthy planet."
The letter continues by highlighting the need to "encourage a lifestyle based on the proper relationship between man and nature, but also with his peers." The Aparecida document stresses that "the best way to respect nature is to promote a human ecology open to transcendence, that with respect for the person and the family, the environment, and the city, follows the signs to San Paul to unite all things in Christ and to praise Him with the Father."
It also recalled that back in June 2006, the Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Acapulco had reported, in their Pastoral Letter on "Care of Creation," on the need to undertake "a work of education for all in light of the gift of creation, respecting the environment and overcoming the practice of abuse, aggression, and irrational exploitation of natural resources." The letter ends with this exhortation: "Everyone - governments, businesses, civic organizations, and all citizens - has the grave responsibility to make decisions and assume their own responsibilities in meeting the challenge of climate change." (CE) (Agenzia Fides 16/12/2009)
