Holy See calls for global development fund, weapons-spending cuts
June 25, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Addressing a UN Security Council meeting, a leading Vatican diplomat said that “the Holy See remains concerned about the ever-growing military expenditure, which diverts significant resources from investments in development sectors such as healthcare, education and infrastructure.”
“In this context, the Holy See renews its proposal for the establishment of a global fund, partly financed by redirecting resources currently allocated to armaments,” Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, said in his June 23 statement.
He added, “This fund could make a meaningful contribution to eradicating poverty and hunger, and to promoting development in the world’s most disadvantaged regions.”
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