Church leaders from U.S., Amazon ask governments to protect rainforest cruxnow.com

Less than a week before the U.S.-sponsored Leaders Summit on Climate, environmental and religious leaders said they are worried about talks on how to preserve the region and are asking government officials from the U.S. and the Amazon to look at kindly at the rainforest and its peoples.

“The Amazon is very important for humanity, for life … it helps stabilize the climate, it is a source of life,” said Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, president of the Pan-Amazonian Church Network, or REPAM…

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