ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “October eighty years after the establishment of FAO, our conscience must once again address the drama – always current – of hunger and malnutrition. It is a problem to which we must all participate in seeing in the suffering of others something of our own. Those who suffer from hunger are not a stranger. He is my brother and must be helped without delay.” So Pope Leo XIV in his speech at FAO. It is necessary to mobilize us “in a spirit of solidarity, so that in the world there is no one to which food is lacking. In this way, it will end a situation that denies human dignity, compromises development, compels people to leave their homes and hinders understanding among peoples”, he adds.
“The scenarios of current conflicts have made the use of food re-emerged as a weapon of war by contradicting all the awareness-raising work carried out by FAO over the past eight decades. It seems further and further that consensus expressed by States considering deliberate hunger a war crime, as well as intentionally impeding access to food to entire communities or peoples – said the pontiff – Some years ago, the United Nations Security Council” condemned and stigmatized “the use of hunger inflicted on civilians as a weapon of war. This seems forgotten because – he observes – with pain, we are witnesses of the continuous use of that cruel strategy that condemns men, women and children to hunger by denying them the most basic right: the right to life.”.
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