In an October 16 address at the Rome headquarters of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Pope Francis said that a commitment to change our ways of life is the key to ending the problem of world hunger…
Given the resources that are available, he said, “the credibility of the entire international system is at stake.” He regretted that “partial commitments” by the world’s powerful nations make food available only in cases of emergencies, and that daily deaths by starvation are “being met with indifference.”
There are two main causes of hunger, the Pope continued: war and climate change…
