Vatican newspaper draws attention to widespread child malnutrition in Afghanistan
September 15, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: L’Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent article in its September 11 edition to children’s malnutrition in Afghanistan.
In an article with the headline “Nemmeno la forza per piangere” [Not even the strength to cry], Sara Costantini reported that “there are children who no longer cry because malnutrition has made them too weak even to ask for help. This is the most silent wound in Afghanistan.”
“Nearly five million children, equal to 20 % of children in Afghanistan, face ‘crisis’ or ‘emergency’ levels of food shortages,” she added. “For them, every day is an invisible struggle to stay alive. If concrete help doesn’t reach them, Afghanistan risks losing its most fragile and precious asset: the future of its children.”
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