September 26, 1996

Porvoo Agreement Lights Road to Unity for 50 million European Christians

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Episcopal News Service
Patricia Lefevere, New Jersey-based Freelance Writer

[Conference on Internation...]
Conference on International Debt Addresses Human Cost of Finances. Liberation theologian Gustavo Gutierrez of Lima, Peru, was a featured speaker at a round-table discussion of policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund sponsored by the Anglican Communion Office at the United Nations. A report from the conference released in August calls on the two organizations to pursue policies "strongly based in principles of fairness, justice, such that they must preserve the moral integrity and sanctity of human life." (Episcopal News Service photo by Jack Abraham)