and again decried the true ecological debt that exists between the Global North and South. Francis was rightly known as the ‘Pope of the peripheries’, standing up for the most vulnerable and ...

Many Global South countries spend five times more on repaying debt than tackling climate change - governments meeting in ...

"Pope Francis has been a towering figure of human dignity, and an unflinching global champion of climate ... for a deeply troubling ecological debt”. Hitting on one of the main topics of COP28 ...

referring to the pope’s repeated calls for an end to the war and the release of captives held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Francis had repeatedly criticized Israel’s wartime conduct and said ...