Catholic World News News Feature
Pope backs "right to food" October 16, 2007
In an annual message for World Food Day, Pope Benedict XVI writes that hunger today reflects not a worldwide shortage of resources, but "situations provoked by human behavior."
The Holy Father's message was released on October 16 as the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) observed World Food Day. The message was addressed to FAO director Jacques Diouf.
Saying that the quest to eliminate hunger is "one of the most serious challenge of our time," the Pope notes with regret that existing programs "do not seem to have significantly diminished the number of hungry people in the world."
Pope Benedict notes that many people find themselves starving after poverty or warfare forces them to leave their homes, and they cannot find food in their new locations. Every society should provide migrants and refugees with access to food, he writes, saying that the failure to do so is "an evident violation of human dignity."
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