Excellent News - World Council of Churches pulls fossil fuel investments

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/11/world-council-of-churches-pulls-fossil-fuel-investments
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An umbrella group of churches, which represents over half a billion Christians worldwide, has decided to pull its investments out of fossil fuel companies.

The move by the World Council of Churches, which has 345 member churches including the Church of England but not the Catholic church, was welcomed as a "major victory" by climate campaigners who have been calling on companies and institutions such as pension funds, universities and local governments to divest from coal, oil and gas.

In an article for the Guardian in April, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said that "people of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change" and events sponsored by fossil fuel companies could even be boycotted.

Bill McKibben, the founder of climate campaign group 350.org, said in a statement: "The World Council of Churches reminds us that morality demands thinking as much about the future as about ourselves – and that there's no threat to the future greater than the unchecked burning of fossil fuels. This is a remarkable moment for the 590 million Christians in its member denominations: a huge percentage of humanity says today 'this far and no further'."

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When will the Catholic church weigh in on this one?

[Peacetrain]

1. True reason to celebrate..

[malaise]

2. Except that I can't see the Church of England

parting from BP. That should be interesting to watch.

[Peacetrain]

4. Absolutely!

That is state run church and is BP state run? yep the church would have to really take a moral high ground position.. it would be a good thing if they did

[malaise]

5. I wish I knew who owned BP

There are lots of rumors that it was owned by the Royal Family. I don't think they own it these days.

[RKP5637]

3. Excellent! Churches need to start doing things like this and separate themselves from the

crazies always in the MSM spotlight.

[redqueen]

6. Very good news, thanks!

K&R