Dear
JCTR Bulletin Readers:
This
issue of the Bulletin is coming
to you in a context of a very eventful year: the passing away of Pope John
Paul II and the subsequent election of Pope Benedict XVI, the on-going
“Make Poverty History” campaign, the Group of Eight (G8) meeting to
take place in Gleneagles, Scotland at the start of July, obviously in
Zambia the issue of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative,
and also the question of putting Economic Social and Cultural (ESC) rights
into the new Constitution.
In
our view, the significance of all the above events rests on one common
foundation. They are all about
humanity and the quest to finding out what it really
means to be human and what is required to really create human communities.
Talking
about the Papacy, certainly as we share in the legacy of the late John
Paul II, one issue which will always stand out prominently is his work on
social justice, the creation of structures for the realisation of fuller
living conditions of God’s people. But
we have already started seeing the role of the church in addressing social
issues being continued and highlighted by the new Pope, Benedict XVI.
On the new Pope’s agenda is, among others, the area that needs no
explanation in as far as the “Kingdom
of God
on earth” is concerned, inter-religious dialogue. Complete letter |
