The Catholic Church in England and Wales has joined a coalition of Christian churches and organisations to call on churches to screen a film on the climate and nature crises. Source: The Tablet.
By hosting community screenings of the newly released People’s Emergency Briefing film and inviting local MPs, the coalition urges the UK’s 38,500 churches, chapels and meeting houses to serve as a platform to raise awareness of the scale and threat of the climate and nature crises, as well as their solutions.
“The People’s Emergency Briefing lays bare how serious the climate and nature crisis is, the significance of the threat to our common home and the impacts it will have on people’s lives, and the need to come together to respond to this emergency,” said Bishop John Arnold, lead bishop for the environment for the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales.
The 50-minute film presents the latest evidence on the climate crisis in accessible terms, with the aim of fully briefing viewers on the risks and on the benefits possible from emergency action and triggering “a moment of national reckoning”.
The film has come out of an event held in Westminster in November 2025, where experts briefed more than 1200 leaders, including politicians and faith representatives, on the risks climate breakdown poses to the UK’s food systems, national security and economy.
The movement calls for a national response on the scale of the effort during World War II, which experts say is necessary to address the emergency.
National security expert Lieutenant General Richard Nugee told the Westminster gathering that climate change is now a core national security threat, with defence institutions in the UK, NATO and beyond recognising the climate as a “threat multiplier”.
Bishop Arnold said: “Our faith compels us to speak up on matters of justice and morality and by joining this initiative we can play our part in calling for the government to take the action that is urgently needed.
“We must study the signs of the times and take the action that is needed to repair our relationship with God’s creation.”
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Churches urged to screen briefing on risks to national security from ecological breakdown (By Aili Winstanley Channer, The Tablet)
