church and within the world, including the encouragement to make a serious effort to cancel Third World debt: Thus, in the spirit of the Book of Leviticus (25:8–12), Christians will have to raise their voice on behalf of all the poor of the world, proposing the Jubilee as an appropriate time to give thought, among other things, to reducing substantially, if not cancelling outright, the international debt which seriously threatens the future of many nations.16 One of the remarkable features of Jesus’
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