John Kerry: 'Climate Change' 'a Challenge to Our Responsibilities as the ... Safe Guarders of God's Creation'

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CNS News:

CNSNews.com) - Reiterating a theme he presented two weeks ago at an Iftar dinner celebrating the end of Ramadan, Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday described "global climate change" as "a challenge to our responsibilities as the guardians--safe guarders of God's creation."

Kerry was speaking at an event announcing the creation of the State Department's Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives.

"I'm convinced that all of you will agree," said Kerry, "that one of the toughest challenges that we face in terms of global diplomacy and relationships around the world between peoples nowadays, from sectarian strife to the challenges of many intractable, frozen conflicts, to the challenges of simply understanding people--one people to another--or even monumental challenges like the sectarian strife that we see tearing countries and regions apart, as well as the enormous challenges of things like global climate change, which really is a challenge to our responsibilities as the guardians--safe guarders of God’s creation."