The UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, is taking place in Egypt. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, addressed the conference and warned that “climate change will not wait for us.”

“Climate change has had a major impact on the current food and migration crisis,” warned Aloysius John, secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s confederation of relief and development agencies. “The international community and, especially the states responsible for the degradation of our common home, must act immediately.”