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Catholics call for environmental action at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue

(19 Jun 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 19 June 2025 1. Aerial of Christ the Redeemer and Rio de Janeiro city ++MUTE++ 2. Volunteers preparing ceremonial carpets 3. Carpets and Christ 4. Carpets forming the word (Portuguese) "Peace" 5. Various of people using recycled plastic to decorate the ceremonial carpets 6. Marcos Martins 7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marcos Martins, 36 years old, Environmental Manager of the Christ Sustainable Consortium: "Our traditional Corpus Christi carpet this year has a more sustainable approach; we crushed bottle caps. These caps could have been polluting our environment, but we crushed them and used them in the Corpus Christi carpet. Instead of the traditional salt, this time it was crushed plastic." 8. Carpet 9. Various of Cardinal Tempesta and other catholic officials during the Eucharistic adoration 10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Cardinal Orani Tempesta, 88 years old, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro: "The Sanctuary of the Redeemer wanted to give a sign also on the ecological issue. It has been ten years since Pope Francis signed the document on integral ecology, Laudato Si. So, crushed ecological bottle caps were used to make the carpet, clearly reminding us of our responsibility towards ecology and concern for the environment, which is a characteristic of the Redeemer." 11. Aerial tilt down from Christ to carpet ++MUTE++ STORYLINE: Brazilian Catholic worshippers laid down an eco-friendly carpet in front of the world-famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, calling for the protection of the environment as the country prepares to host UN climate talks in the Amazon. Tapestries are a fixture of Corpus Christi, a religious feast celebrated by Catholics, who believe it marks the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. This year, the colorful carpet was made from approximately 460 kilos of recycled plastic caps. Over the past few years, the Christ the Redeemer sanctuary has increasingly used the attention the iconic statue generates to spotlight environmental concerns. These caps could have been polluting our environment, but we crushed them and used them in the Corpus Christi carpet," said Marcos Martins, environmental manager and educator at the sanctuary. Just after daybreak and before the first flock of tourists arrived, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta led celebrations at the site overlooking Guanabara Bay and Rio’s famed Sugarloaf mountain. The caps are “a good reminder of our co-responsibility with ecology, of our concern for the environment, which are very characteristic of Christ the Redeemer,” Rio’s archbishop told journalists. Thursday’s celebration also paid homage to the late Pope Francis and his Laudato Si’, a landmark environmental encyclical in which Francis cast care for the environment in stark moral terms, calling for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he said was a “structurally perverse” economic system in which the rich exploited the poor, turning Earth into a pile of “filth” in the process. Earlier this month, the sanctuary held a ‘week of the environment’, with workshops, discussion groups and actions focusing on environmental preservation. Brazil has been hit by a series of environmental disasters in recent years, including severe droughts in the Amazon, wildfires in the Pantanal and flooding in the south. Heavy rains have killed at least two people in the southern region Rio Grande do Sul, the state’s civil defense agency said on Wednesday, just over a year after the region was hit by record-breaking floods. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...