A commission appointed by the late Pope Francis has released a new report highlighting the urgent need to address global debt, which has hindered sustainable development and climate action.. The ...

The document was presented at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on June 20 as one of the main initiatives of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.

The Vatican called for sweeping reforms to a global financial system it says punishes the poor and rewards the powerful.

Leaders gathered for the Financing for Development (F4D) conference in Spain faced urgent calls from leading economists and ...

Pope Francis was top advocate for debt relief; Official aid fell 7% in 2024, set to drop 9%-17% in 2025-OECD; France, Germany, UK and US all cutting aid spending ...

Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday, 21 April, aged 88, the Vatican has announced. Elected in 2013 following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, he was the head of the Catholic Church for ...

Eric LeCompte is the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, a global debt relief advocacy group. The pope’s predecessors, St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, he said, shared many of his ...

LONDON (Reuters) -The death of Pope Francis and global aid cuts led by the United States could complicate the work of a group of experts assembled by the Vatican to bring debt relief and a fairer ...