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Tuesday, 11 November 2008
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Evangelical Reverend Richard Cizik comes to Australia to preach... about climate change.
Evangelical in Australia to lobby on climate change
ABC Radio, Sara Everingham, 10 November
PETER CAVE: Environmental and Christian groups have combined to host an American evangelical Christian who's in Australia this week to lobby the Federal Government on climate change. The Reverend Richard Cizik is expected to meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today and will meet the Opposition's Environment spokesman Greg Hunt.
His fight hasn't been without controversy. It's earned him the wrath of more conservative Christians in the United States.
Sara Everingham reports.
SARA EVERINGHAM: Climate change isn't an issue that's normally associated with evangelical Christians but Reverend Richard Cizik has been trying to change that.
RICHARD CIZIK: We believe that climate change is real. We believe that it's human induced. We regard the poor particularly of the world, to be the principal victims of climate change.
SARA EVERINGHAM: Reverend Cizik heads up the lobbying arm of the National Association of Evangelicals. He says climate change is a moral issue and that evangelicals have a Biblical duty to protect God's creation.
RICHARD CIZIK: I say to my fellow evangelicals, when you die, God is not going ask you how old the earth is or whether or not he created it in six days or six billion years. He is going to say, what did you do with what I created and we have to have an answer. We have to say we took care of it when it was hurting.
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