Concilium 1999/5 2000: Reality and Hope

I. The globalizing evil of our actual world. Life and death on planet earth / Leonardo Boff — Some specific cases: 1. The situation of Africa / Elizabeth Amoah. 2. The Mayas of Chiapas / Carlos Mendoza Álvarez. 3. "Death Row" USA / John Mannion — A carefully hidden reality / Enrico Chiavacci — Sins of the world, light of the world / José-Ignacio González Faus — II. The hope of the jubilee in religious traditions. The jubilee in Judaeo-Christian tradition / Elsa Tamez — Jubilee 2000 in the teaching of John Paul II / David N. Power — Asian dreams and Christian hope Felix Wilfred / A jubilee in jeans / Donna Singles — III. Hope and grace. Resurrection : the ground, power and goal of our hope / Jürgen Moltmann — Sources of hope: 1. The women's movement / Maria Pilar Aquino. 2. Ethics / Marciano Vidal. 3. Greater love, witness to full life / Eduardo de la Serno. 4. Renewing the face of the earth / J. Matthew Ashley — A total jubilee : "giving hope to the poor and receiving it from them" / Jon Sobrino — IV. Closing reflections. Jubilee litanies / Pedro Casaldáliga.