The Pope Francisco charged today against spending on weapons and assured that “Creating the awareness that you have to spend on weapons dirty the soul, the heart and humanity.”
Pope Francis spoke in this way when receiving today the volunteer organization “I was thirsty” that carries out humanitarian projects in various parts of the world and to whom he highlighted “the illogical” of devoting resources to weapons, which means “removing” those who lack what is necessary.
“And this is a scandal: spending on weapons. What is spent on weapons: terrible. I don’t know what percentage of GDP, I don’t know, I don’t have the exact figure, but a high percentage. And it is spent on weapons for wars and so on – not only this one, which is very serious, the one we are experiencing now, and which we feel[morebecauseitiscloserbutalsoinAfricaintheMiddleEastinAsiathecontinuouswarsThisisserious”headded[másporqueestámáscercasinotambiénenÁfricaenOrienteMedioenAsialasguerrascontinuasEstoesgrave”añadió
Francis asked “what for? it serves to commit solemnly at the international level to campaigns against poverty, against hunger, against the degradation of the planet”, if later “we fall back into the old vice of war, into the old strategy of the power of armaments, which makes everything and everyone go backwards”.
“A war always makes you go back: always. We walk backwards. You have to start over…”, she added.
Francisco has made at different times of his pontificate appeals for countries to work for disarmament and criticizing the enormous figures that are allocated to the purchase of weapons.
Likewise, the pontiff launched in a video message to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its creation, the idea of constituting with the money that is used in weapons and other military expenses “a world fund” to definitively defeat hunger and help the development of the poorest countries. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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