Episcopal church to divest from fossil fuels

From The Guardian Episcopal church votes to divest from fossil fuels: 'This is a moral issue'
by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent

The leadership of the Episcopal church has voted to withdraw from fossil fuel holdings as a means of fighting climate change, delivering an important symbolic victory to environmental campaigners.

Two weeks after the pope’s pastoral letter on the environment, the divestment decision by a major US Protestant denomination underscored that climate change is increasingly seen by religious leaders as a deeply moral issue.  continue

We call on Pope Francis to instruct all Catholic Institutions worldwide to divest from fossil fuel investments and to redirect those funds to renewable energy development.  Coal, oil and gas must be left in the ground unused.