05.02.2016
Churches Urged to Issue Clarion Call for Earth Hour 2016
A Dublin musician and composer is urging churches to send out a Clarion Call to people to act on climate change during Earth Hour 2016. Clarion Call for Earth Hour is an invitation to all churches and cathedrals to ring out their bells for Earth Hour 2016 and to ring in the changes for our environment.
Campaign organiser, Sinéad Finegan, is asking places of worship to ring their bells at the start of Earth Hour 2016 – at 8.30 pm on March 19.
Earth Hour is a global initiative run by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), encouraging people to switch off their lights for one hour, as a symbolic gesture of their commitment to tackling climate change – which disproportionately effects the poorest and most vulnerable – and to protect our natural world.
Throughout Ireland Clarion Call aims to couple with this visual image of hope by adding the striking sound of church bells ringing out in the darkness, waking people to their responsibility to protect our country and our planet.
“People of all faiths and none are welcome to participate,” Sinéad comments. “If your community has no bells to ring, then sign up to spread the message of Clarion Call instead and listen out for the bells that will be calling us all to stand together, and – more importantly – act together for what we all value and share: our world.”
To register your church for Clarion Call go to http://sfinegan.wix.com/clarioncall on Facebook see https://www.facebook.com/ClarionCallforEarthHour/?fref=ts