Faith-based organizations are commending a new pastoral letter from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) pressing the Global North to wipe out low-income countries’ crippling debt and consider the ecological burden it has placed on the Global South.
Forgive us our Debts: Pastoral Letter on Debt Forgiveness in the Jubilee Year, authored by the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace and released on July 28, continues the CCCB’s tradition of urging the relaxing of crippling monetary obligations during a year of special grace in the universal Catholic Church.
Dean Dettloff, the research and advocacy officer for Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, in an email said the bishops’ missive meets the moment.
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