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BELÉM, Brazil — Pope Leo XIV this week urged countries at United Nations climate talks in Brazil to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God’s creation “is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.”

In a video message played for religious leaders gathered in Belém, Leo said nations had made progress, “but not enough.”

“One in three people live in great vulnerability because of these climate changes,” Leo said. “To them, climate change is not a distant threat, and to ignore these people is to deny our shared humanity.”

His message came as the talks were moving into their seco

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