The Holy Father Pope Francis in the Encyclical Letter "Laudato Si"

In The Encyclical Letter "Laudato Si", the Holy Father Pope Francis speaks of care for our Common Home. Cameroon Concord's Editor-in-Chief Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai presents the richness of the message Francis is now spreading around the globe.

The Holy Father in The Encyclical Letter Laudato Si wrote: "The foreign debt of poor countries has become a way of controlling them, yet this is not the case where ecological debt is concerned. In different ways, developing countries, where the most important reserves of biosphere are found, continue to fuel the development of richer countries at the cost of their own present and future. 

The land of the southern poor is rich and mostly unpolluted, yet access to ownership of goods and resources for meeting the vital needs is inhibited by a system of commercial relations and ownership which is structurally perverse.

The developed countries ought to help pay this debt by significantly limiting their consumption of non-renewable energy and by assisting poorer countries to support policies and programmes of sustainable development."