AMERICA : MEXICO : CHILDREN SUFFER FROM HUNGER

Agenzia Fides REPORT– It is unacceptable that children die or remain disabled because of hunger. This is what emerges in a document released by the Archdiocese of Mexico, which is based in Mexico City, which proposes some actions for the establishment of a national agreement to deal with this tragedy. To raise awareness on social levels of poverty and inequality that exist in Mexico, the Catholic Church has just published its second National Report "Dolor de la Tierra, Dolor de los Pobres. ¡Actuemos ya! "Which emphasizes that "it is unacceptable that a quarter of Mexicans live in hunger and thirst, and that children cannot continue to die or be disabled because of hunger." "Neither - continues the document - it is possible that there are communities where more than 90% of the population are poor. We cannot continue to follow a policy of social development that goes beyond emergencies without thinking about what is essential for the daily living of the people." The Archdiocese has proposed to give rise to "a national agreement that establishes priorities for tackling poverty and inequality, promoting the mobilization and the concentration on agreements at a regional and national level." In the work, coordinated by Caritas Mexico, the head of the Episcopal Commission for the Social Pastoral (CEPS-Caritas), His Exc. Mgr. Gustavo Rodríguez Vega, Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, said that "there are situations that require new attitudes and new actions on our behalf, which cannot be postponed."(AP) (Agenzia Fides

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