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Sat 04 Apr 2007HorizonsEarth Day unites faith leaders:Thousands of faith leaders around the world are using tomorrow's celebration of Earth Day to present global climate change as a moral issue.Priests from the Jewish, Christian and other interfaith communities have pledged support for Earth Day online (www.earthday.org) with prayers, sermons and events posted. In the US, a panel of religious leaders will discuss the moral issues of global climate change on Earth Day TV. Rabbi Warren Stone, the Jewish NGO representative who attended the UN climate talks in Kyoto, Japan 10 years ago, says: "In a world where matters of faith seem so often and so tragically to divide us, there is no issue that aligns us more deeply than our shared dependence upon and sacred responsibility to this tiny planet . . . I fervently believe that climate change has become the most profound religious issue of our times."