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February 9, 2015

Caritas aiming to end global hunger, poverty by 2025

A boy and his younger brother eat their free meals during a feeding program in late May at a slum area in Manila, Philippines. Pope Francis denounced widespread hunger due to wasted food as a symptom of a "throwaway culture" and called for greater effort to build a worldwide "culture of encounter and solidarity" instead.

WASHINGTON - Caritas Internationalis is going big-picture with its first global campaign, aiming to end hunger worldwide by 2025.

Published in International