Migration
“Valorising technology in the service of development is certainly a path to take, provided it leads to concrete actions to reduce the number of those who suffer from hunger or to govern the phenomenon of forced migration”. Pope Francis said this in his address to the FAO, in which he warned against “partial commitments” in international cooperation, only limited to “emergency aid”. “Even death by hunger or the abandonment of one’s own land is daily news, which risks being met with indifference”, Pope Francis denounced. According to him, new paths should be taken “to transform the possibilities available to us into a guarantee that permits each person to look to the future with well-founded trust and not only with desire”. “The scenario of international relations – the Pope said – shows a growing capacity for giving answers to the expectations of the human family, also with the contribution of science and technology which, studying the problems, propose appropriate solutions”. These new tools, however, “do not succeed in eliminating the exclusion of much of the world’s population”, Pope Francis appealed: “How many are the victims of destruction, wars, and climate change? How many people lack work and essential items, and are forced to leave their land, exposing themselves to many and terrible forms of exploitation?”.
