Pope Francis has asked the faithful to join in prayer for the victims of an avalanche triggered by the melting of a glacier in northern Italy, highlighting the effects of climate change.
Pope Francis invited Catholics - and anyone else interested - to join a seven-year journey to widen the reach of his 2015 encyclical on the environment in a time of global climate change.
Pope Francis is urging political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks yielded a compromise on how to combat global warming.
Pope Francis called on lawmakers worldwide to overcome “the narrow confines" of partisan politics to quickly reach consensus on fighting climate change.
The Vatican hopes a meeting where world religious leaders will take a common stand on the environment can "raise ambitions" on what can be achieved at next month's U.N. Climate Change Conference, its foreign minister says.
The Vatican hopes a meeting where world religious leaders will take a common stand on the environment can "raise ambitions" on what can be achieved at next month's U.N. Climate Change Conference, its foreign minister says.
