Faith-based organisations are commending a new pastoral letter from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops pressing the Global North to wipe out low-income countries’ crippling debt and consider the ecological burden it has placed on the Global South. Source: NCR Online.
“Forgive us our Debts: Pastoral Letter on Debt Forgiveness in the Jubilee Year,” written by the CCCB’s Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace and released on July 28, continues the 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…