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Pope Francis Goes Green, but Will the Flock Follow?
The Vatican is weighing in on the fight against global climate change -- with Pope Francis at the lead -- how will the world's billion plus Catholics react? Could it tip the scales of the environmental movement to curb greenhouse emissions?
By Barbara Bogaev • • 51m ListenThe Vatican is weighing in on the fight against global climate change -- with Pope Francis at the lead. Guest host Barbara Bogaev explores how the world's billion-plus Catholics will react. Could it tip the scales of the environmental movement to curb greenhouse emissions?
Also, survivors pulled from rubble in Nepal. On today's Talking Point, she's one of Hillary's biggest threats, and she's not even running -- Elizabeth Warren and the the dance between two democratic powerhouses.
Pope Francis visits one of the Typhoon Haiyan victims in Palo, Leyte. (Benhur Arcayan/Malacanang Photo Bureau)
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3 storiesSurvivors Pulled from the Rubble in Nepal
Five days after a massive earthquake in Nepal, rescue workers pulled two more people from the rubble in Kathmandu. It was a rare bit of good news in a city struggling to cope with the disaster. It also followed suggestions by Nepalese officials that it was too late to find survivors and that international rescue teams should go home.
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Climate change activists have an influential new ally who could bring along more than a billion followers. This week the Vatican held a summit on how environmental crises hurt the poor.
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Today US Senator Bernie Sanders , a self-described socialist from Vermont became the first official democratic rival to Hillary Clinton . But he may be overshadowed by another liberal powerhouse, Senator Elizabeth Warren . She says she isn't running but you wouldn't know it from listening to Clinton adopting her rhetoric.
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