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Pope Benedict, leading the Catholic Church's first eco-friendly youth rally, yesterday told up to half a million people that world leaders must make courageous decisions to save the planet "before it is too late".
"A decisive yes is needed in decisions to safeguard creation," the 80-year-old said in his homily to a vast crowd of mostly young people sprawled over a massive hillside near the Adriatic city of Loreto on the day Italy's Catholic Church marked its annual Save Creation Day
