“Once poverty no longer has a face, we can yield to the temptation of discussing “hunger”, “food” and “violence” as concepts, without reference to the real people knocking on our doors today. Without faces and stories, human lives become statistics and we run the risk of bureaucratizing the sufferings of others. Bureaucracies shuffle papers; compassion deals with people.”
Pope Francis (address to the World Food Program at the United Nations on June 13th)
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Pope Francis’ address to Executive board of World Food Program (News.va)