BETHLEHEM, December 28, 2010 – Upon an invitation by the Environmental Educational Center (ECC) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, a workshop on the climate change was held on December 13, 2010 in Bethlehem in order to discuss the “Uppsala Interfaith Climate Manifesto” and the role of the religious, political, scientific and media institutions in raising the awareness of the Palestinian society regarding this phenomenon and ways to offset and face it.
This was the first of a series of workshops to be held in Bethlehem in the coming weeks and months. The second workshop will be hosted today at 4pm in Bethlehem.
It is noteworthy to mention that the Uppsala Manifesto that was issued in 2008 came as a result of an initiative of the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden Anders Wejryd.