The liturgy happened during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and the season commemorating Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.
Speaking from Atlanta, Georgia, World Council of Churches (WCC) president from North America-Turtle Island Rev. Dr Angelique Walker-Smith delivered the reflection. She proclaimed Jubilee for people and planet, linking debt relief directly to climate action and food security.
“The climate emergency, together with widening inequalities, demands such a reset. The socio-economic and ecological costs of the global debt crisis can no longer be ignored,” Walker-Smith said.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development figures show 3.4 billion people live in countries spending more on debt repayments…