DAY OF JUBILEE: Incredible News For Praying People! - 12 Jun 2005

THE FACTS: Stop what you're doing and PARTY... It's a day of true jubilee! The world's wealthiest countries agreed today to write off more than $40 billion of African debt...    The deal, struck by finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations, would wipe out the debts owed by 18 of the world's poorest countries immediately and up to 38 in total, most of which are in Africa.

BONO SAYS: "The journey of equality took another step today, and broke free millions of people in some of the poorest countries from the bondage of immoral and unjust debts. The leadership of the jubilee campaigners is bearing fruit once more. We really owe those people, from church basements to national treasuries who have worked so long and so hard for this day. There's long nights ahead of us all to build up the speed & acceleration for a compre-hensive deal for the poorest people in the poorest countries at the G8.

SETH AMGOTT SAYS: Americans asked for leadership in canceling the poorest countries' debts, and we got it from the Bush Administration: this agreement frees up more than $1 billion in the first year and rising - for more schools, health clinics and farm-to-market roads. This agreement is a down payment on the historic breakthrough the ONE campaign seeks at the G8 in Gleneagles: more and better development assistance, 100% debt cancellation and trade justice.

JESUS SAYS: "God's Spirit is on me; he's chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor... To announce pardon... To set the burdened and battered free   To announce, "This is God's year to act!" You've just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place." (Luke 4:18-21)