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).

SVJETSKI čelnici "hrane" ratove umjesto gladnih, rekao je papa Lav XIV., govoreći agenciji UN-a za humanitarnu i prehrambenu pomoć da su globalni prioriteti vrlo iskrivljeni.

He observed that global crises have evolved from isolated emergencies into persistent conditions characterised by prolonged conflicts, chronic food insecurity, economic…