Pope to FAO: 'Guaranteeing access to food is a basic human right'
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Pope Leo XIV, in stay after the operation for lung cancer, invites to serve the interests of humanity, with the new technologies, not the military industry. In the first place of the priorities, the pontiff places hunger in the world and agriculture: "It is essential a new global food order, in which technological innovation is unconditionally subordinate to respect [...] The article Pope Leo: "Resources of the war industry to be converted to ag…
Pope to FAO: 'Guaranteeing access to food is a basic human right'
In his message to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization for World Food Day 2026, Pope Leo XIV calls for food to be recognized as 'a basic human right,' insists that bread must never be used as 'a weapon of war,' and urges the international community to show the 'moral audacity' needed to combat hunger. Read all
The text emerges on the occasion of World Food Day. Leo XIV said that hunger in the world "is not a technical or economic problem, but rather a profound anthropological and ethical crisis".
The Pope considered "unacceptable" that, at this time of technological progress, bread continues to be a privilege and water, a commodity, in a message to the FAO.
Bread cannot be a weapon of war, nor access to food a privilege of the few, the Holy Father recalled in his message for World Food Day, celebrated on October 16. The Pope called for a new global food order based on human dignity and solidarity. He also called for funds invested in the arms industry to be allocated to the development of sustainable agriculture and the restoration of damaged soils.
Rome, Oct 16 (Latin Press) Pope Leo XIV called today to build a new world food order that places human dignity above economic interests, warning that hunger persists in the midst of unprecedented technological progress. The post Leo XIV calls for a new world food order based on justice first appeared on News Prensa Latina.
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