A key part of a jubilee in the Bible was releasing prisoners, and Catholics today can join a global campaign to press for the release of thousands of people imprisoned in poverty because of their nations’ foreign debt, said an official of Caritas Internationalis.
Victor Genina Cervantes, director of integral human development at Caritas Internationalis, the umbrella organization for national Catholic charities around the world, presented the campaign “Turn Debt into Hope” at a Vatican news conference Dec. 23, the eve of the opening of Holy Year 2025.
Proclaiming the Jubilee Year, Pope Francis had appealed to the world’s wealthiest nations to “acknowledge the gravity of so many of their past decisions and…
