Pope calls for peace through 'sobriety and solidarity'
Pope Benedict XVI has urged people to adopt new lifestyles "marked by sobriety and solidarity" in 2010 to counteract "environmental degradation" and promote peace in a troubled world.
"If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation," the Pope says in his annual New Year's Day message marking World Peace Day 2010.
"It is becoming more and more evident that the issue of environmental degradation challenges us to examine our lifestyle and the prevailing models of consumption and production, which are often unsustainable from a social, environmental and even economic point of view."...