Catholic News Service
Barbara J. Fraser

LIMA, Peru (CNS) — Dwarfed by the grown-ups holding banners and signs around her, Ruby Arizabal clutched a doll in one hand and a candle in the other.
“I’ve come here,” she told Catholic News Service, “because the planet is sad.”
The 6-year-old was one of the youngest participants in an interfaith candlelight march and prayer vigil on the eve of the U.N. climate summit, which will run from Dec. 1 to 12 in this city of 9 million people that sprawls across Peru’s coastal desert. Continue reading ‘The planet is sad’: Marchers pray for success of U.N. climate summit