ABSTRACT
Addressing health inequalities Christian Aid, a group drawn from all of the leading Protestant denominations, perhaps deserves the most credit for drawing the international debt to the attention of lay people in recent years. Their promotion of the Jubilee 2000 Project, which calls for the unilateral lifting of debt from the poorest nations, has attracted considerable media attention. This was reflected in the large street demonstrations which took place in 1998 in Birmingham at the meeting of the G7 nations (plus Russia) and it was widely thought that the most powerful first world nations really would address the debt question in some dramatic way at that gathering. The fact that they didn't served to educate large numbers of 'ordinary people' as to the response of the powerful to issues of social justice.
