Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in OSV News regarding the joint letter between the USCCB and Jubilee USA Network written to President Trump on debt relief, moving new forms of economic aid and changes to the financial system to address poverty and stabilize food as well as fuel prices. Read an excerpt below, or the full article here. 

US bishops ask Trump in joint letter to pursue global debt relief in the Jubilee Year

By: Kimberley Heatherington

"In a world economy rocked by the whiplash of American trade tariffs that has spared few countries, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Jubilee USA Network, an interfaith development group, have a proposition for President Donald J. Trump: Forgive some debts."

 

Read the full letter to President Trump from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Jubilee USA Network here.

Read Pope Francis' June Jubilee 2025 debt focus speech here.

Learn about the global Jubilee interfaith launches and December Holy See launch here.