Pope calls for 'determined' action on hunger

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ROME – The world must take “determined and effective” action against hunger after the global economic crisis pushed the ranks of the undernourished to a record 1 billion, Pope Benedict XVI said Friday.

             Developing countries need more investments, especially in agriculture, to ensure their populations don't go hungry, the pope said in a message to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on World Food Day.

             "This crisis requires governments and the members of the international community to make determined and effective choices," Benedict said in the message read at an FAO ceremony. "Access to food is more than a basic need, it is a fundamental right of individuals and peoples."

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I agree fully with the blessed Pope Benedict. We need to take determined and effective action against hunger. The United States has an over-abundance of food while other nations are starving to death. That shouldn’t be.

 

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We have been given an abundance of food for an abundance of almsgiving.