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At FAO, Pope denounces global apathy as food lifeline disintegrates

WFP warned that global funding cuts could push 13.7 million food aid recipients from crisis to emergency levels of hunger.

Pope Leo XIV attends the Food and Agriculture Organization's World Food Day and 80th anniversary ceremony at its headquarters in Rome. (AN/©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto)

Pope Leo XIV issued a fierce moral indictment against the international community, declaring the persistence of hunger is a "collective moral failure" and warning world leaders they can no longer "look the other way."

The Pontiff’s remarks to the Food and Agriculture Organization's summit in Rome on Thursday came a day after the World Food Program warned that severe global humanitarian funding cuts are pushing millions of people toward starvation, with famine already confirmed in Gaza and Sudan.

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