KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 — The local Catholic Church in the peninsula has offered to contribute one weekend’s worth of cash donations usually used as alms for the poor to help pay the country’s debts.
The Catholic initiative comes after a similar crowdfunding effort undertaken by the Council of Churches of Malaysia, an umbrella body representing most of the Protestant Churches in the country, last Thursday.
“The Bishops of Peninsular Malaysia as a metropolitan province have collectively agreed to offer up one weekend’s collection from all parishes towards the Tabung Harapan Malaysia as a gesture of solidarity and as a part of the local church’s commitment to assist in rebuilding our nation,” Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur Julian Leow said in a statement yesterday.
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