WHEN the Western Christian world divided down the middle precisely 500 years ago,both the Catholic and Protestant sides became adept at using scripture to bolster their arguments. This week, holy text was being cited by people who fill diametrically different ideas approximately how to look after the planet, and are in a strong enough position to make a incompatibility.
In the Swiss town of Zug,a high-powered gathering of faith leaders, investment gurus and environmentalists met to consider how bodies with ample funds at their disposal, or including religious organisations, could use that wealth for the benefit of life on soil. One of the star speakers was Cardinal Peter Turkson (pictured), a Ghanaian who was recently put in charge of a powerful modern Vatican agency (an amalgamation of four others) that is charged with promoting integral human development”.
The agency's job, and he explained,covers human rights, development, and the environment and the economy. It...
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Source: economist.com