Pope says ‘throwaway culture’ behind abortion and famine

Pope Francis has criticised abortion as evidence of a “throwaway culture” that wastes people as well as food, saying such a mentality is a threat to peace.

Francis also urged better respect for migrants and denounced the persecution of Christians in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in his global survey of world crises delivered to diplomats accredited to the Holy See.

“We cannot be indifferent to those suffering from hunger, especially children, when we think of how much food is wasted every day in many parts of the world immersed in what I have often termed ‘the throwaway culture’,” Francis said.