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# Time Inc. to Host Global Forum Featuring Pope Francis

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## TIME Staff


Sep 6, 2016 11:00 AM UTC

![Pope Francis at the Vatican, Sept. 3, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49f1c131e94544a3/6988a4ca656a3f466abccf7f/pope-francis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

Pope Francis at the Vatican, Sept. 3, 2016.

Pope Francis at the Vatican, Sept. 3, 2016. Stefano Rellandini—Reuters

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## TIME Staff


Sep 6, 2016 11:00 AM UTC

Time Inc. will host a forum in Rome on the global economy, culminating in a special address by Pope Francis at the Vatican, the company announced Tuesday.

The [2016 Fortune/Time Global Forum](http://www.fortuneconferences.com/global-forum-2016/)—the first of its kind— will take place Dec. 2 and 3 and aims to bring together [Fortune 500 CEOs](http://beta.fortune.com/fortune500/), members of the [TIME 100 most influential people](http://time.com/collection/2016-time-100/) and other academic, religious and business leaders to discuss international economic issues, including creating jobs, eliminating poverty, solving the refugee crisis and broadening prosperity.

Pope Francis has regularly [spoken out](http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/pope-francis-capitalism-inequality/) about global economic issues, raising concerns about the growing [wealth gap](http://fortune.com/2015/09/20/pope-francis-income-inequality/) and criticizing the “dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose.”

“Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy,” he said in a [speech](http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/07/10/pope%5Ffrancis%5Fspeech%5Fat%5Fworld%5Fmeeting%5Fof%5Fpopular%5Fmovements/1157291) in Bolivia last year. “It is a moral obligation.”

The Fortune/Time forum will be led by Time Inc. Chief Content Officer and Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alan Murray and Time Inc. News Group Editorial Director and Time Editor-in-Chief Nancy Gibbs. The official host committee for the forum includes the leaders of [IBM](http://fortune.com/fortune500/ibm-31/) and [PepsiCo](http://fortune.com/fortune500/pepsico-44/) as well as the Rockefeller and [Ford](http://fortune.com/fortune500/ford-motor-9/) Foundations, among others.

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