Spot on
Finally, someone with a global platform says what needed to be said. Priorities are so warped when feeding conflict gets more resources than feeding people. Do you think leaders will actually listen?
Pope Leo decries leaders who ‘feed’ wars while millions go hungry
ROME: World leaders are “feeding” wars instead of the hungry, Pope Leo said on Monday, telling the UN food aid agency that global priorities were badly skewed. Leo, who has been more outspoken on political issues in recent months, urged governments to increase their spending to combat hunger and not subject food aid to limits based on geopolitical concerns. “Conflicts are ‘fed’ more readily than people are nourished,” the first US pope said in a visit to the Rome headquarters of the World Food Programme (WFP).