Holy See Calls for Collective Effort to Combat Global Hunger

Oct 23, 2019 18:04

ZENIT Staff

Meetings

Pope: World Hunger Mustn’t Be Accepted as ‘Natural’

At WFP, Reminds That Those Suffering Lack of Food Have Names and Faces

Jun 13, 2016 20:39

Kathleen Naab

Spirituality

Cardinal Turkson: Fight Hunger, Not the Hungry

«Many different approaches are needed. The key is to turn global hunger into a human issue: hunger comes from a lack of solidarity, hunger comes from failing to feel, relate and behave as brothers and sisters»

Jun 13, 2016 20:13

ZENIT Staff

Spirituality

Pope's Address to World Food Program Executive Board

«We thus find ourselves faced with a strange paradox. Whereas forms of aid and development projects are obstructed by involved and incomprehensible political decisions, skewed ideological visions and impenetrable customs barriers, weaponry is not. It makes no difference where arms come from; they circulate with brazen and virtually absolute freedom in many parts of the world. As a result, wars are fed, not persons»

Jun 13, 2016 19:38

ZENIT Staff

Justice and Peace

Caritas President Praises 2 US Farm-to-Table Initiatives in Address at FAO

In Maine and in Washington, Church’s charity group has made farmers and the hungry into allies

May 31, 2016 16:50

ZENIT Staff

Meetings

Pope to Food and Agriculture Organization: Good Intentions Aren't Enough

«Is it still possible to conceive of a society in which the resources reside in the hands of the few, and the least privileged must make do with the leftovers?»

Oct 16, 2015 18:06

ZENIT Staff