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NIFEA letter to G20 Leaders Summit

In a letter to leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) on 17 November 2020, the World Council of Churches, World Communion of Reformed Churches, Lutheran World Federation and Council for World Mission urged easing of pressure on countries being suffocated by debt especially in a time of pandemic. The organizations represent more than 500 million Christians across the world.

WCC Programmes
18 November 2020
NIFEA
Sustainability and Economy of Life

G20 governments and financial institutions need to provide the means to alleviate and release countries from their onerous and historic debt burdens as well as establish a comprehensive, fair, transparent, and timely international debt restructuring mechanism to address sovereign insolvency, the letter urges.

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