Pope calls for end to 'poverty pandemic' - News Summed Up

Pope calls for end to 'poverty pandemic'


By AFP More by this AuthorVatican City"Everything will be different" after the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said Saturday, calling for a fairer society and action to "end the pandemic of poverty in the world". "Once we emerge from this pandemic, we will not be able to keep doing what we were doing, and as we were doing it. TRIALS OF HUMANITY"From the great trials of humanity -- among them this pandemic -- one emerges better or worse. The pope led a prayer in the Vatican gardens for all those affected by the pandemic, which has killed nearly 370,000 people worldwide and devastated the global economy. "We know it, we knew it, but this pandemic that we are living through has made us experience it in a much more dramatic way," he said.


Source: Daily Nation May 31, 2020 03:22 UTC



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