Indian Archbishop leading Holy See delegation to Rio+20

(June 18, 2012) Indian Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, is leading a 5-member Holy See delegation to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20 (pron. Rio plus twenty), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this week. The delegation includes Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer, Archbishop of San Paolo, Frs. Philip J.Bené and Justin Wylie e Lucas Swanepoel a lawyer. The June 20-22 Rio+20 conference is marking the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.