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by bcadmin | Apr 20, 2022 | Africa bishops, Church in Africa, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, SECAM | 0 |
With the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group spring meetings underway, the bishops of Africa are calling for more support from the world’s finance leaders.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2021 | Afghanistan, Bishop David J. Malloy, G7, IMF, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, USCCB | 0 |
The International Monetary Fund on Aug. 23 withheld $455 million in emergency COVID-19 relief funding from Afghanistan, after the Taliban’s takeover of the country forced the organization to withhold its recognition of the Afghan government.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 7, 2021 | Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Biden Administration, Church in the US, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, IMF, Inequality, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News | 0 |
If world leaders don’t take steps this fall to get COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest countries, Eric LeCompte, the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, fears the darkest days of the pandemic lie ahead.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, IMF, International Monetary Fund, News, Vatican | 0 |
Poor countries cannot be expected to recover from the current financial crisis if the world returns to an economic model in which a small minority of people owns half of the world’s wealth, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2020 | Church in the US, COVID-19, Eric LeCompte, IMF, Jubilee USA Network, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis issued a call for reduction if not the forgiveness of the debt burdening the balance sheets of the world’s poorest countries so that they can better tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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