South India’s Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) is planning to introduce environment protection as a policy – as it previously has done in the fields of education and healthcare – to create greater awareness among the faithful, reports the Times of India .

The bishops are planning to convey this message mainly through its 6,000-odd schools and 198 colleges spread across the state.

The pro-environment draft is to be finalized at the annual meeting of the Council to be held this December.

“A draft will be sent to experts in this area, as well as members of the laity organization, the Catholic council. It will then be modified as per their suggestions, and the final version will get cleared at the meeting,” says Fr Stephen Alathara, spokesperson of the KCBC. The policy will cover the theological, philosophical and practical aspects of environment protection, he adds.

“Earlier we could make advances in education and healthcare because we formulated policies for all these sectors. So we are now giving much importance to environment protection too,” he said.

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Catholic churches in Kerala go green (Times of India)

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