Christian Aid to host climate change march

Volunteers are being recruited for Christian Aid’s upcoming climate change march in the UK. The charity is searching throughout churches and communities nationwide for people who will ‘put their best foot forward’ for the first ever mass march for climate justice this summer.

The 11-week, 1000 mile Cut the Carbon march will need hundreds of marchers, including 10 core marchers who will walk the whole route. They will join campaigners from the developing world to protest against the scandalous injustice that poor peoples’ lives are being wrecked by dangerous greenhouse gas emissions pumped into the atmosphere by the rich world.

Letters of recruitment have already been sent to the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist and URC churches and Christian Aid is also talking with leaders of many black majority churches. Read more