” “"The responsibility for emphasising an appropriate catechesis about Creation, to recall the sense and the religious meaning of its protection, has a major impact on the perception of the value of life itself and is an appropriate solution to the attendant, inescapable social problems". This was written by the Pope in the message he sent today, through card. Roger Etchegaray, to the ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew I, on the occasion of the sixth meeting, "The Amazon, the spring of life", which ended today in Brazil, as part of the "Religion, science and Environment" scheme, promoted by the ecumenical patriarch in cooperation with the episcopate of the Catholic Church in Brazil. "In our shared commitment reads Benedict XVI’s message I see an example of that cooperation that Orthodox and Catholics must look for all the time, to respond to the appeal of a shared testimony". As he recalled the work carried out by the Brazilian bishops "for the environment, the deterioration of which has deep, serious repercussions on the populations", the Pope then made an appeal to people and governments "on the problems, the needs and the emergencies of a region that is suffering so much and is so much threatened in its ecological balance". (to be continued)” “
