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By Bob Allen Leaders of two Baptist groups were among 34 interfaith leaders across the United States sending a letter to Congress in light of the pope’s visit and his call for action to fight climate change. Paula Clayton Dempsey, director of partnership relations for the Alliance of Baptists, and Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA, joined leaders of other faith traditions urging support for a resolution introduced by Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY) calling for measures “to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects” of measured climate change. Gibson organized a coalition of 11 Republican members of Congress in response to Pope Francis’s appeal for a new dialogue about how humans are shaping the future of the planet.