Weapons get through lines but not food, says Pope

Pope Francis has told thousands of workers and diplomats at the UN agency which delivers food to crisis areas it is “a strange paradox” that food often cannot get through to those suffering due to war but weapons can.

Francis’s visit to the World Food Program was his first to the UN agency that provides emergency food aid for 80m people in some 80 countries in the world.

The Pope has repeatedly drawn attention to global indifference towards refugees, the poor, and the hungry, and has made food security one of the cornerstones of his papacy, previously visiting the World Food Program’s sister organisation, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.