Religious leaders say prayers as glacier begins to slip away
Alex Kirby in Ilulissat, Greenland
September 8, 2007

They flew in from around the world, completing the final leg in a half-full charter from London that must have left an embarrassingly large carbon footprint.

But the leaders of six world religions paused for two minutes here yesterday under a grey sky, with a mirror-calm sea, and on an unseasonably warm day, to pray for the ailing planet.

The Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew, the leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, was joined by Christian bishops and a cardinal, the Grand Rabbi of Paris, Sunni and Shia scholars, and by Hindu, Shinto and Zen Buddhist leaders. the rest