Church Bells Will Ring Across Scotland To Protest G8 Climate Inaction

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"Churches across Scotland are to sound a wake-up call to the leaders of the G8 countries at the Gleneagles summit. The Kirk is demanding action over climate change from the world's most powerful leaders - a key theme of Britain's G8 presidency.

To highlight their case, churches will ring their bells at the same time on the Thursday of the summit. They say the message will be in anger at wealthy nations which have failed to act over global warming.

Delegates at the Church of Scotland's annual General Assembly meeting in Edinburgh backed a motion which encourages churches to ring their bells on Thursday, 7 July. The time - 1345 - has been chosen specially to represent the fact that 13% of the world's population produces 45% of its greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Rev Erik Cramb said: "George Bush and Tony Blair are leaders who regularly proclaim that power is of God. "Let us say to them, as this local part of the world church, if that is so, and we believe it is, then power should be used to serve the purposes of God, prominent among which are surely that the hungry are fed and the oppressed set free."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4577327.stm

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1. We gotta do that here!

only my UU church doesn't have a bell....