Jubilee 2025
The Mary Ward Centre is one of many partners in the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Year campaign.
We are committed to education and advocacy for the dignity and rights of all people and we have special concern for women and children and those most vulnerable in society. Our work is intersectional, looking at the multiple identities and political, social, and economic realities that impact justice. Our work is aligned with the campaign's objectives to lift up Indigenous perspectives, and to cast a light on the structural injustices of ecological debt, climate and debt migration, gender justice, and poverty, wealth and inequality. Please join us in supporting this campaign.
Jubilee is deeply rooted in faith traditions and scripture, calling us to cancel debts, care for creation, and end poverty and inequality. Inspired by these principles, Jubilee 2000 mobilized millions of people worldwide, including 640,000 Canadians, and achieved the cancellation of $100 billion in debt for 36 low-income countries. This legacy of faithful action continues today with Jubilee 2025.
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Led in Canada by KAIROS and key ecumenical partners such as the Mary Ward Centre, Jubilee 2025 addresses the urgent global crises of unjust debt and ecological harm. Many countries in the Global South face crushing debt burdens that deprive communities of basic needs like healthcare, education, and climate resilience. Meanwhile, ecological debts caused by wealthier nations’ exploitation of resources in low-income and Indigenous communities demand urgent attention.
The campaign’s goals
are clear:
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Cancel unjust debts to free vulnerable communities from oppression.
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Reform the global financial system to prioritize equity, sustainability, and justice.
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Establish a fair debt framework within the United Nations to resolve the current crises and prevent future debt crises.
Join us in a movement of hope and transformation! Help us collect 100,000 Canadian signatures by the end of 2025, which will contribute to the global goal of 10 million signatures. Let’s ensure our leaders at the G7 Summit in Alberta this June hear our collective call for change.
Learn more! kairoscanada.org/jubilee-2025-canada
Let’s turn debt into hope and make 2025 a year of justice and transformation.
Thank you for your support!