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 A lvarez. 3. "Death Row" USA / John Mannion -- A carefully hidden reality / Enrico Chiavacci -- Sins of the world, light of the world / Jose -Ignacio Gonza lez 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 / Ju rgen 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 Casalda liga.