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CBCP head calls for Earth Hour support
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MANILA, 27 March 2008—The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines exhorts all Catholic believers to fully back participation in this week’s Earth Hour.
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The event will be held on Saturday night when people will be encouraged to turn off their lights at 8pm for one hour.
It is aimed at creating public awareness about reducing global emissions and slowing the pace of global warming.
The CBCP head, Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo said it is important for the people follow the way in marking Earth Hour.
“This is in response to the problem on global warming which we are facing not just in the Philippines but in the whole world,” he said.
Lagdameo said that Jaro archdiocese will also join the event to symbolize their commitment in the fight against climate change.
Earth Hour is going global this year with many cities from around the globe taking part including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Toronto, Copenhagen, Christchurch and Suva.
It is taking simple steps that collectively reduce carbon emissions—from businesses turning off their lights when their offices are empty to households turning off appliances rather than leaving them on standby.
Earlier, Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales also made a similar call in encouraging the people in the Manila archdiocese to support Earth Hour.
In a message given for circulation around parishes in the Manila archdiocese, Rosales called on "all the faithful of the Archdiocese of Manila and all those who wish to join" to participate in the event.
"On this joyous day when we celebrate life, we turn to our earth, our abode, our beautiful home, which still "groans and suffers" in need of redemption from the abuses of those whose responsibility is to safeguard and protect it," the message read.
"We begin to make amends for our ecological sins, and while there is still time, do something to reverse the tide of destruction that modern life and human selfishness have wrought on it," it read.
He urged the faithful to use the "hour of darkness and being disconnected" for prayer, reflection, and be "connected with and enlightened by the Lord."
"It can be our hour of commitment to be responsible stewards of nature. It can be our penance for our ecological sins and offenses and the beginning of our resolve never to commit those sins again," the message read. (Roy Lagarde)
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