{"id":6621,"date":"2021-05-11T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimission.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2021-05-06T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:33:28","slug":"145-religious-leaders-reject-vaccine-nationalism-moral-obligation-to-reach-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/11\/145-religious-leaders-reject-vaccine-nationalism-moral-obligation-to-reach-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"145 religious leaders: \u201cReject vaccine nationalism. Moral obligation to reach everyone\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a global effort, 145 religious leaders from across the world \u2013 Christians, Muslims, Jews and Buddhists \u2013 have united their voices in a letter to heads of State and Government and pharmaceutical companies calling for global and universal access to vaccines.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on all leaders to reject vaccine nationalism and embrace a commitment to global vaccine equity. As religious leaders, we join our voices to the call for vaccines that are made available to all people as a global common good \u2013 a People\u2019s Vaccine. This is the only way to end the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Signatories include Card. Peter Turkson, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Franciscan friars of Assisi, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury; Martin Junge, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation; Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; Jim Winkler, President of the National Council of Churches in the USA.<\/p>\n

At the height of the \u201cIndian emergency\u201d the religious leaders recall our interdependence and our responsibilities \u201cto care for one another.\u201d \u201cWe can each only be safe when all of us are safe. If one part of the world is left to suffer the pandemic, all parts of the world will be put at ever-increasing risk,\u201d says the statement.<\/p>\n

The initiative falls under the scope of the People\u2019s Vaccine Alliance, a coalition of organisations and activists campaigning for a \u2018people\u2019s vaccine\u2019 for COVID-19, and calling for the COVID-19 vaccines to be free from patents.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery person is precious. We all have a moral obligation to reach everyone, in every country.\u201d Signatories voice their concern over the inequitable vaccine availability in rich countries while in most low- and middle-income countries vaccines are only beginning to trickle in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe access of people to life-saving Covid-19 vaccines cannot be dependent on people\u2019s wealth, status, or nationality,\u201d the religious leaders write in their statement. \u201cWe cannot abdicate our responsibilities to our brothers and sisters by imagining that the market can be left to resolve the crisis or pretend to ourselves that our country has no obligation to people in their country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hence the request to the heads of Government, civil society, and the private sector to increase and ramp up vaccine production to ensure sufficient doses for every person in the world.<\/p>\n

(Photo: Sara Toffano)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a global effort, 145 religious leaders from across the world \u2013 Christians, Muslims, Jews and Buddhists \u2013 have united their voices in a letter to heads of State and Government and pharmaceutical companies calling for global and universal access to vaccines. \u201cWe call on all leaders to reject vaccine nationalism and embrace a commitment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}