Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle called on rich countries to write off the debt of poor countries as the world faces the Covid-19 crisis.
"Could the coronavirus crisis lead to a jubilee of forgiveness of debt, so that those who are in the tombs of indebtedness could find life – untie them, release them," said the cardinal.
In his homily on Sunday, the Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples spoke about forgiving the debt of poor countries in the context of the day’s Gospel.
He compared the tomb and death of Lazarus to the debt of poor countries, who are yearning for liberation.
Jubilee, in the Biblical context, is a time of grace that celebrates liberation from conditions such as slavery, debt or poverty.
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