(19 Jun 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 19 June 2025
1. Aerial of Christ the Redeemer and Rio de Janeiro city ++MUTE++
2. Carpets forming the word ”Paz” (peace in Portuguese)
3. Close of recycled plastic to decorate the ceremonial carpets
4. Various of people using recycled plastic to decorate the ceremonial carpets
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marcos Martins, Environmental manager of the Christ Sustainable Consortium:
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"Our traditional Corpus Christi carpet this year has a more sustainable approach; we crushed bottle caps. These caps could have been polluting our environment, but we crushed them and used them in the Corpus Christi carpet. Instead of the traditional salt, this time it was crushed plastic."
6. Various of Cardinal Orani Tempesta and other catholic officials during the Eucharistic adoration at the Sanctuary of the Redeemer
7. Aerial tilt down from Christ to carpet
8. Close of carpet
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Cardinal Orani Tempesta, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro:
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"The Sanctuary of the Redeemer wanted to give a sign also on the ecological issue. It has been 10 years since Pope Francis signed the document on integral ecology – Laudato Si (Praise be to You in English) – so crushed ecological bottles were used here to make the carpet, clearly reminding us of our co-responsibility towards ecology, and concerned for the environment, which is a characteristic of the the Redeemer.”
10. Wide of carpet
STORYLINE:
Brazilian Catholic worshippers laid down an eco-friendly carpet in front of the world-famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, calling for the protection of the environment as the country prepares to host UN climate talks in the Amazon.
Tapestries are a fixture of Corpus Christi, a religious feast celebrated by Catholics, who believe it marks the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
This year, the colorful carpet was made from approximately 460 kilos ( (1,014 pounds) of recycled plastic caps.
Over the past few years, the sanctuary of Christ the Redeemer has increasingly used the attention the iconic statue generates to spotlight environmental concerns.
”These caps could have been polluting our environment, but we crushed them and used them in the Corpus Christi carpet," said Marcos Martins, environmental manager and educator at the sanctuary.
Just after daybreak and before the first flock of tourists arrived, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta led celebrations at the site overlooking Guanabara Bay and Rio’s famed Sugarloaf mountain.
The caps are “a good reminder of our co-responsibility with ecology, of our concern for the environment, which are very characteristic of Christ the Redeemer,” Rio’s archbishop said.
Thursday’s celebration also paid homage to the late Pope Francis and his ”Laudato Si” a landmark environmental encyclical in which Francis cast care for the environment in stark moral terms, calling for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he said was a “structurally perverse” economic system in which the rich exploited the poor, turning Earth into a pile of “filth” in the process.
Earlier this month, the sanctuary held a ‘week of the environment’, with workshops, discussion groups and actions focusing on environmental preservation.
Brazil has been hit by a series of environmental disasters in recent years, including severe droughts in the Amazon, wildfires in the Pantanal and flooding in the south.
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