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Irish Bishops announce decision to divest from fossil fuels

Categories: Articles:Environment | Published: 31/08/2018 | Views: 477

Statement by William Crean, Bishop of Cloyne :"The Bishops' Conference has signed the global Catholic fossil free pledge and today begins the process of divesting its resources from all fossil fuels. In doing so, we are responding directly to Pope Francis' call in his 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si by moving away from fossil fuels "without delay" (paragraph 165).

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