(Vatican Radio) The United Nations has warned that the threat of famine is a real possibility in Yemen and has launched an appeal for urgent funds.Listen to Lydia O’Kane's report An ongoing civil war in Yemen has brought the country to its knees and now 12 million people are living under the threat of famine.Speaking on Wednesday as he launched an appeal for $2.1 billion to provide food and other life-saving aid, U.N. emergency relief coordinator Stephen O'Brien told a news briefing that "A staggering 7.3 million people do not know where their next meal is coming from".According to UN figures nearly 3.3 million people, including 2.1 million children are acutely malnourished.Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Yemen said people are struggling to survive."Fishermen can't fish, farmers can't farm, civil servants don't get paid…; people are having to make life and death decisions, do you feed your child or your child...
(Vatican Radio) The United Nations has warned that the threat of famine is a real possibility in Yemen and has launched an appeal for urgent funds.
Listen to Lydia O’Kane's report
An ongoing civil war in Yemen has brought the country to its knees and now 12 million people are living under the threat of famine.
Speaking on Wednesday as he launched an appeal for $2.1 billion to provide food and other life-saving aid, U.N. emergency relief coordinator Stephen O'Brien told a news briefing that "A staggering 7.3 million people do not know where their next meal is coming from".
According to UN figures nearly 3.3 million people, including 2.1 million children are acutely malnourished.
Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Yemen said people are struggling to survive.
"Fishermen can't fish, farmers can't farm, civil servants don't get paid…; people are having to make life and death decisions, do you feed your child or your children, or do you pay for medical treatment for your child. And that's a daily call for many families."
Last week, UNICEF said an estimated 63,000 children had died in 2016 of preventable causes often linked to malnutrition.
Pope Francis meets with 300 priests taking part in the World Meeting of Parish Priests on May 2, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 2, 2024 / 12:41 pm (CNA).Pope Francis published a letter on Thursday addressed to all parish priests in the world with his advice for building a missionary Church in which all the baptized share in the mission of proclaiming the Gospel."Parish communities increasingly need to become places from which the baptized set out as missionary disciples and to which they return, full of joy, in order to share the wonders worked by the Lord through their witness," Pope Francis wrote in the letter published on May 2.The pope presented the letter to 300 priests participating in the Synod on Synodality's "World Meeting of Parish Priests" during an audience at the Vatican, saying that their meeting is "an opportunity to remember in my prayers all of the parish priests in the world to whom I address these words with great affection."P...
Pope Francis shared a stage with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on May 12, 2023, to speak at a two-day conference on "The General State of the Birth Rate," held at Conciliazione Auditorium close to the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 2, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).The Vatican announced on Thursday that Pope Francis will speak at an event on Italy's demographic crisis as the country's birth rate sits at a historic low.Pope Francis will address "The General State of the Birth Rate" conference on May 10 at the Conciliazione Auditorium close to the Vatican.The two-day event organized by the Forum of Family Associations and the Foundation for Births seeks to address the 50 years of steady decline in births across Europe, and especially in Italy, and what can be done to reverse it. Births in Italy dropped to a historic low in 2023. Italy's national statistics bureau recorded 379,000 births last year, a 3.6% decline from 2022 and a 34.2% drop from 200...
Father Paul Tatu Mothobi, a member the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (CSS/ Stigmatines) and former Media and Communications Officer of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC), was found dead of gunshot wounds in South Africa, on April 27, 2024. / Credit: SACBCACI Africa, May 2, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA).Father Paul Tatu Mothobi, a member the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (CSS/Stigmatines) and former media and communications officer of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC), was reportedly murdered last weekend in South Africa.According to a notice from the congregation's South Africa-based provincial secretary, Father Jeremia Thami Mkhwanazi, Tatu died on Saturday, April 27, "after sustaining a gunshot."Tatu, a native of Lesotho's Archdiocese of Maseru, was ministering in South Africa's Archdiocese of Pretoria. According to reports, his lifeless body was found with gunshot wounds in his car on a national road in South Africa, which r...
