Archbishop Welby pontificates on climate change, but clams up on persecution of Christians in India

Sep 5, 2019 by Jill

by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest:

The Archbishop of Canterbury has been admonished for remaining tight-lipped on the persecution of Indian Christians, while sounding off on climate change and religious pluralism during his ten-day trip to India.

“Climate change is happening. You in India have seen the effect of climate change first hand,” Archbishop Justin Welby told a select audience at the United Theological College in Bangalore, while turning a blind eye to a petition addressed to him from the Environment Support Group in the same metropolis.

The petition accuses the Church of South India of secretly selling a biodiversity “sacred grove” belonging to All Saints Church, Bangalore, to allow dumping of construction equipment of the new Metro and the construction of a Metro station inside the church campus.

The archbishop, however, announced that the Anglican Consultative Council had declared a “climate emergency.”

“If we do not prepare ourselves for the rapid and monumental changes coming our way—not only in terms of climate, but technological development—we too shall find that things will fall apart. The centre will not hold,” Welby said, quoting the Irish poet W.B. Yeats at a lecture to India’s most leftwing seminary.

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