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CofE praises environment help for churches ahead of Creationtide

by Hannah Tooley

The resources have been created by Canon Vicky Johnson from Ely Cathedral.

They will enable churches to take part in a Creationtide season which begins next month.

Originally from the Eastern Orthodox tradition, it has now spread widely among Anglican, Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations.

It encourages prayer between different Christian groups who work for the protection of the environment that sustains the planet.

The leader of Catholics all over the world, Pope Francis, also recently spoke about conserving the environment at World Youth Day in Krakow.

He spoke in front of two million Catholics and declared September 1st an annual 'World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation'.

In 2015, he released a special encyclical about climate change and stressed the importance of protecting the environment.

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Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury and the Church of England's lead bishop on the environment, said: "These liturgical resources provide richly for churches celebrating Creationtide.

"Celebrating Creationtide marks a shift in the Christian understanding of our relationship to creation under God.

"The consequences of teaching over recent centuries that humanity has been given domination over creation are clear in the complex environmental crisis we now face.

"It is important that Christians rediscover older traditions of a godly relationship [between] humanity [and] the wider created order."

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