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Pope Leo Urges World Leaders ‘Not to Look the Other Way’ in Fighting Global Hunger
Pope Leo XIV cited UN data showing 673 million people face hunger and called for urgent global action against food insecurity worsened by aid cuts and conflict.
- On Thursday, Pope Leo XIV addressed FAO's World Food Day ceremony and urged world leaders not to look away, saying `Allowing millions of human beings to live-- and die-- victims of hunger is a collective failure, an ethical aberration, a historical sin`.
- The World Food Program warned Wednesday its funding this year "has never been more challenged" due to cuts from the United States and others, with 319 million facing acute food insecurity.
- Highlighting 'outrageous paradoxes,' Pope Leo XIV condemned food waste amid 673 million people not eating enough and 2.3 billion lacking nutritious diets, calling them broken lives.
- Pope Leo XIV urged renewed multilateral cooperation, calling for contributions from governments, institutions, civil society and every individual, while pledging the Holy See's solidarity as U.N. food agencies warn funding cuts risk emergency hunger.
- Amid conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere, Pope Leo condemned the use of food as a weapon of war and warned the UN Security Council's condemnation "seems to have faded.
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Pope Leo slams ‘collective failure’ of world hunger affecting millions
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday condemned the world's failure to stop millions of people from going hungry, blaming a "soulless economy" and calling on others to rethink their lifestyles and priorities.
Pope Denounces Global Leaders for Failing to Confront Hunger Crisis
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday slammed the world’s failure to stop millions of people going hungry, blaming a “soulless economy” and calling on people to rethink their lifestyles and priorities. Allowing millions of human beings to live—and die—victims of hunger is a collective failure, an ethical aberration, a historical sin. The crisis was “a clear sign of a prevailing insensitivity, a soulless economy,” the Pope told the Food and Agriculture Organ…
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Noticias ao MinutoAt World Food Day celebrations, Leão XIV said that "Leting millions of human beings live and die of hunger is a collective failure, a ethical aberration, a historical crime".
Pope Leo XIV: ‘Defeating hunger is the path to peace’
Pope Leo XIV visits the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome to mark World Food Day and the 80th anniversary of the organization’s founding. In his address he reaffirms the Holy See’s closeness to the institution and calls for a shared global commitment to end hunger and malnutrition. Read all
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