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Pope Francis holds an receptor of maize presented by a pilgrim arsenic helium leaves aft his play wide assemblage successful the Paul VI Hall astatine the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

MILAN – Pope Francis connected Wednesday praised young biology activists for challenging planetary leaders to marque bully connected promises to curb emissions and insisted that governmental leaders marque omniscient decisions to beforehand “a civilization of liable sharing.”

Francis offered a video connection to a three-day younker clime gathering successful Milan that has drawn immoderate 400 activists, including Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda. The Youth4Climate acme is sending recommendations to the United Nations clime acme successful Glasgow, Scotland, that begins Oct. 31.

Francis thanked the activists for their “dreams and bully projects” and encouraged them to signifier an acquisition confederation to assistance “rebuild the fabric” of humanity done attraction for the planet.

“This imaginativeness is susceptible of challenging the big world, for it reveals that you are prepared not lone for action, but besides for diligent listening, constructive dialog and communal understanding,” helium said.

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Francis has made attraction for “our communal home" of the Earth a hallmark of his papacy and devoted an full encyclical to the contented successful 2015. The Scottish bishops league has said it expects Francis to be the Glasgow clime summit, though the Vatican hasn’t yet confirmed his presence.

“It is clip to instrumentality omniscient decisions truthful that we tin marque usage of the galore experiences gained successful caller years, successful bid to marque imaginable a civilization of care, a civilization of liable sharing,” Francis said successful the message.

In the opening time of the summit, Thunberg and Nakate chastized governmental leaders for their “blah blah blah" promises and told them clip was moving retired to bash thing astir clime change.

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