Vatican’s U.N. observer stresses need to eradicate world hunger

Finding a solution to the “ongoing scandal” of worldwide hunger should be a top priority, said the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations. Addressing a U.N. General Assembly meeting on sustainable development goals May 23, Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, called it “a shame that so many of the poor people in the world continue to find themselves helpless victims of chronic hunger.”

He urged the U.N. to find “sustainable models of food security and nutrition” to end hunger for nearly 1 billion people worldwide particularly when the international community can “produce sufficient food for every human being.”