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Religious Working Group in Action
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It is time to cancel the crushing debt burden of the world's most impoverished countries.
| The RWG is a group of people representing religious denominations, institutions, and organizations who meet and act on a regular basis to address the causes of the debt that is crushing the world's poor. All work is based on the Moral Imperatives which are summarized below. |
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All of life exists within the sphere of God's care and judgment. Individuals, institutions, business enterprises and governments are objects of God's concern and subject to moral accountability.
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Human beings are created in the image of God. All persons -- male and female -- are created in the divine image, loved by God and equal in worth, dignity and fundamental rights.
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Human beings are persons-in-community, intended to live in relationships of human solidarity according to the norms of love and justice. All people are created and called to love God and neighbor -- across the divisions of ethnicity, class and nation.
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God is redeemer and liberator, calling us to a special concern for people living in poverty and oppression. The work of God involves lifting up and empowering people living in poverty and the redemption of human beings from every kind of oppression -- personal and social.
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Creation is an expression of the goodness of the Creator and is endowed with dignity and value. Human beings are called to live in mutually sustaining relationships with each other and with all creation.
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Sin is social and institutional, as well as personal. Social sin is present where there are growing economic disparities, increasing concentrations of economic power, and accelerating environmental abuse.
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All humanity is called to forgiveness, reconciliation and jubilee. The biblical witness mandates just and equitable commercial relationships, selfless help to those in need and the cancellation of oppressive debts that keep people locked in poverty.
What's New
Economic Way of the Cross 2007 - Flyer
Meeting
on Moral Imperatives Process - Dec 8th -
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- Marie
Clark
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Sameer Dossani
An Invitation to Participate in RWG a Moral Imperatives Process