Pope to FAO: Protect Mother Earth. Pope Francis travelled to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Headquarters in Rome on Thursday, to give an address to the Second International Conference on …More
Pope to FAO: Protect Mother Earth.
Pope Francis travelled to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Headquarters in Rome on Thursday, to give an address to the Second International Conference on Nutrition taking place there this week. In his speech the Pope said, that while people speak about new rights, those who are hungry ask to be recognized as citizens with dignity. Twenty two years after St Pope John Paul II spoke at the First Conference on Nutrition Pope Francis recalled his prophetic warning about the risk of the “paradox of plenty”, in which there is food for everyone, but not everyone can eat, while waste, excessive consumption and the use of food for other purposes is visible before our very eyes. In his four point address ...
Pope Francis travelled to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Headquarters in Rome on Thursday, to give an address to the Second International Conference on Nutrition taking place there this week. In his speech the Pope said, that while people speak about new rights, those who are hungry ask to be recognized as citizens with dignity. Twenty two years after St Pope John Paul II spoke at the First Conference on Nutrition Pope Francis recalled his prophetic warning about the risk of the “paradox of plenty”, in which there is food for everyone, but not everyone can eat, while waste, excessive consumption and the use of food for other purposes is visible before our very eyes. In his four point address ...