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Pope Francis goes green, but will the flock follow.

I'm Barbara Bogave sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

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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.

And this summer, Pope Francis is expected to frame the fight against global warming as a moral responsibility.

Will it galvanize conservative skeptics?

Can faith and science align in the highly politicized debate on climate change?

And on today's talking point, she's one of Hillary's biggest threats and she's not even running.

Elizabeth Warren and the dance between two Democratic powerhouses.

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only. Just ahead, 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? And later on today's talking point, Hillary Clinton may be the candidate, but Senator Elizabeth Warren often has center stage.

Now, independent Senator Bernie Sanders wants some of the limelight. How will the outspoken liberals shape Clinton's presidential run?

First, this news update. 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

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