[GJM] Pope Benict for usuryfree / transactions /money/banking/ World!!

[Muhammad Mukhtar Alam]

I would like to suggest that the notice is sent to the Vatican as well for realising the role of Church in getting money and banking free from usury that is prohibited and there are commands for the same in Bible.Instead of sharing opinions of some king Pope Benidict needs to attend to the global application of commands against usury..

Peter Challen <peterchallen at googlemail.com> wrote:    Five notices   
    
   Next evening gathering of the Waterloo Open Table is on October 5   
  Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' is now showing and probably awakening many to the immensity of the human dilemma as the earth reacts to its human traitor within. All the more reason why we get our message right that the money system is the root cause of exponential societal and ecological debt. 
  Come on the 5th if you can. 
   
  2. CCMJ annual open day on October 21st. It runs from 11-5. and coming and going is possible.
  11-12 open tables and displays, .ppt.trials, books, leaflets, issues, MRPrty stall etc.
  12-1     Fred Harrison leading discussion on the links between money and land 
  1-2  Lunch and the open stalls again (light lunch for ?3 per head)
  2-3  General discussion on where CCMJ and the MR movement is heading
  3-4 CCMJ AGM
  4-5 Open conversation until we are all packed up and ready for home.
   
  4. Bromsgrove 2006 is a week end event Nov 3-5. If you are interested and not on Alistair's list, do ask me for more detail. 
   
  5.If you are in reach of London and free next Wednesday read on:
   
  INVITATION  I have set up a workshop under the Southwark Continuing Ministerial Training programme to discuss the challenge set out in the letter below which was published in the Diocesan newspaper. 
   
  The title of the workshop is DEBT SLAVERY AND THE FAITH OF THE CHURCH'
  It is at Trinity House, Borough Rd. SE1  next Wednesday  Sept. 20    6pm -8pm 
   
  We will examine three short power-point presentations on issues CCMJ and the MR movement raise, to test their effectiveness and debate the challenges they set before us. 
   
  I wonder if you could come or know any one to whom you could pass this info. 
  Prior comment or notice of attendance would be valued,
  At that point I would give directions to Trinity House.
   
  peterchallen at gmail.com  
  21 Bousfield Rd   SE14 5TP   020 7207 0509
   
  Peter
   
  Dear Editor,
   
  Andrew Britton spoke of reviewing pensions in every corporate enterprise. As that essential work proceeds, let the church in South London initiate and lead a new and deeper debate about the roots of the problem that causes so much concern and the industrial action assailing contemporary society. In the pensions problem, we are seeing only the tip of an iceberg. 
   
  At the last General Synod the Archbishop made an apology for the Church's part in 18th century slavery. That slavery was an economic issue and today aggravated economic issues enslave far more victims in the unintended savagery of our debt-based system, ourselves included,. 
   
  I feel, as I hope the whole church does, for modern day slaves who include 211 million children worldwide between the ages of 5 and 14 who have been forced to leave school to gain money in order to feed their families. These children work for a daily wage that is counted in cents, not dollars, while their labour returns millions of dollars to the big multinational corporations. And it is all to do with our current financial system which is based on never ending unrepayable interest on debt. 
   
  For 1500 years the Christian Church prohibited 'money making money', seeing that practice for what the present Pope, Benedict XVI, described recently (2/11/05) as "the usury that destroys the lives of the poor." That insight is rarely debated in the churches today, although, in contrast, scholarly Muslims frequently identify the deep fault line of usury in global society as they encourage financiers to resist seduction by western practices of banking and finance. 
   
  In 2000, John Paul II appealed to banks and financial institutions to assist people in financial difficulties in order to restrain the "perverse" activity of usury. He pointed out, "If the banks only seek their own benefit, they cease to be instruments of development and become brakes on society." [The Pontiff spoke these words during an audience with 7,500 executives and employees of the Banco di Roma, who were celebrating the Jubilee.] 
   
  It is usury - interest itself, not just excessive interest - that drives the unsustainable short term dynamic in our economic system. The very Earth is choking in the grip of our human debt.    I firmly believe that this understanding lay at the root of the prohibition of usury in all the world's major religions.
   
  The expanding network of monetary reformers have initiated serious proposals for a radical and gradualised process of ending our dependency on debt-based money. Let Southwark lead a new debate on debt slavery with an acknowledgement that we have been complicit in letting this long festering matter lie buried for so long beneath important short-term remedial work, like the recovery of better pensions. 
   
  Canon Peter Challen
   
  

 		
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