Posts Tagged ‘Fr Martin’

Kiribati priest changes sides on climate change debate

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Father Martin is the parish priest on the Island of Abaiang, which is about two hours by boat from Tarawa, in Kiribati.  Of the island’s population of about 5,000, some 4,000 are Catholics. Described as, “an intense man who wears thick black glasses,” he was until recently a climate-sceptic and feared that the message of activists Read more