{"id":233,"date":"2009-11-12T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:55:49","slug":"church-bells-to-ring-out-warning-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/church-bells-to-ring-out-warning-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Church bells to ring out warning on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>LTRP Note:<\/strong> Please read the following out-of-house article in conjunction with our October 19th posting, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/newsletters\/2009\/newsletter20091019.htm#LETTER.BLOCK23\">Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Geneva<\/strong> &#8211; The <a style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14px; CURSOR: pointer; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; TEXT-DECORATION: underline\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091118005811\/http:\/\/www.google.com:80\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ie8V7Taxuv0Vu3HZxT-6qoSXRRxA\">World Council<\/a> of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen <a style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14px; CURSOR: pointer; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; TEXT-DECORATION: underline\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150731123645\/http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/climate+change\/\">climate change<\/a> summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The leading council of Christian and Orthodox churches also invited places of worship for other faiths to join a symbolic &#8220;chain of chimes and prayers&#8221; stretching around the world from the international date line in the <a style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 14px; CURSOR: pointer; FONT-WEIGHT: 400\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100415235746\/http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com:80\/South+Pacific\/\">South Pacific.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On that Sunday, midway through the UN summit, the <a class=\" lingo_link lingo_link_hidden\" style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 14px; CURSOR: pointer; FONT-WEIGHT: 400\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131019040351\/http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com:80\/WCC\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WCC<\/span><\/a> invites churches around the world to use their bells, drums, gongs or whatever their tradition offers to call people to prayer and action in the face of climate change,&#8221; the council said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By sounding their bells or other instruments 350 times, participating churches will symbolise the 350 parts per million that mark the safe upper limit for CO2 (<a class=\" lingo_link\" style=\"FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14px; CURSOR: pointer; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; TEXT-DECORATION: underline\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150802101413\/http:\/\/topics.breitbart.com\/carbon+dioxide\/\">carbon dioxide<\/a>) in the atmosphere according to many scientists,&#8221; it added.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.5c89ef2b65e54705267dd3c67d9f1199.121&amp;show_article=1\">Click here to read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTRP Note: Please read the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,54,4683],"tags":[48,2921,123,124],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-global-spirituality","category-interspirituality","category-environment-climate-change","tag-obama","tag-interspirituality","tag-globalism","tag-global-peace","wpcat-122-id","wpcat-54-id","wpcat-4683-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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