The gap between rich and poor is a “devastating chasm” that continues to widen, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town told the Presiding Bishop’s Forum on Global Reconciliation Thursday night.
In South Africa, he said, 60 percent of people—27 percent of them employed—live below “a very miserly poverty line.” More than 600 die daily of AIDS-related diseases, he said.
Affirming human life over repaying foreign debt, he criticized rich nations that insist that poor nations open their markets and cut agricultural subsidies without doing likewise.
