Jubilee 2025 Official Launch
Canadian Jubilee 2025 – Turn Debt into Hope officially launched on February 19 with a webinar demonstrating the breadth of this work and its supporters.
At the launch webinar, Canadians joined the global campaign, a movement for economic and ecological justice. In Canada, KAIROS is leading the work in collaboration with Citizens for Public Justice, Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, the Office of Religious Congregations for Integral Ecology (ORCIE) and The Canadian Council of Churches.
Throughout history, Jubilee years have been a call to restore justice by cancelling debts, caring for people and the land, and addressing inequality.
Today, forty percent of the world’s population is living in countries that are forced to spend more on repaying debts than on health, education or tackling the climate crisis. Meanwhile, wealthy corporations and countries, including Canada, exploit resources from heavily indebted nations and Indigenous Communities causing human rights violations and severe ecological harm. This creates an “ecological debt” owed to those countries and to Indigenous Peoples.
More than 200 people attended the Launch Webinar, with more than 400 total sign-ups. You too can hear some of the most pertinent portions of the launch here:
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