US EditionPope calls for debt reduction for poorer countries to mark the Vatican's 2025 Jubilee Year
- Pope Francis is urging wealthy countries to substantially reduce or cancel debt for poorer nations as a matter of justice for the Vatican's 2025 Jubilee Year.
- In his message, Francis referenced St. John Paul II’s warning in Jubilee Year 2000 that debt 'threatens the future of many nations.'
- The Jubilee Year will formally commence on Christmas Eve when Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, attracting around 32 million pilgrims to Rome.
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Looking Toward the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope - Callista L. Gingrich
by Ambassador Callista L. Gingrich On Dec. 24, Pope Francis will celebrate Christmas Eve Mass and open the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, officially beginning the 2025 Jubilee of Hope. As Pope Francis wrote in the Papal Bull of Indiction, the official document proclaiming the Jubilee, “Now the time has come for a new Jubilee, when once more the Holy Door will be flung open to invite everyone to an intense experience of the love of God that …
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Northwest CatholicPope calls for end to foreign debt, death penalty ahead of Jubilee Year
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a fixed percentage of arms spending to a global fund to fight hunger and climate change, and to cancel the international debt of developing nations as concrete ways to usher in a new era of hope. "Sporadic
Pope Francis calls for end to foreign debt, death penalty ahead of Jubilee Year
Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a fixed percentage of arms spending to a global fund to fight hunger and climate change, and to cancel the international debt of developing nations.
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Baptist News GlobalPope Francis makes Jubilee year appeal to end hunger, debt woes and death penalty
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the year 2000, then-Pope John Paul II appealed to leaders of wealthy nations, asking them to forgive the debt of poorer countries in the spirit of the Catholic Church’s Jubilee year — a time the church sets aside for forgiveness of sins and debt. Meeting prisoners in Rome, John Paul asked that the death penalty, which he called “an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.”…
In the message for January 1, 2025 released today, Francis relaunches the appeal that was already made by John Paul II in 2000, inviting us to associate him with the elaboration of “a new global financial charter, based on solidarity and harmony between peoples.” The text also called for other actions on large social debts: the elimination of the death penalty and the allocation to the fight against hunger and the development of at least part of…
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