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UN official questions world's hunger commitment

ROME - The director of a U.N. food agency questioned Wednesday how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry. ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Food and Agriculture Organization,  Jacques Diouf,  United Nations,  Silvio Berlusconi

UN food summit ends with 'crumbs' in hunger fight

ROME—The head of a U.N. food agency expressed regret Wednesday that an anti-hunger summit failed to result in precise promises of funding, and critics said the meeting had only thrown crumbs to the world's 1 billion people without enough to eat. The ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Food and Agriculture Organization,  Jacques Diouf,  United Nations,  Silvio Berlusconi,  World Food Programme

Critics say UN food summit wasteful, ineffective

ROME - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday's opening speaker at the U.N. ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Mugabe,  Food and Agriculture Organization,  United Nations,  Muammar al-Qaddafi,  Silvio Berlusconi

Food summit turns down UN funding appeal

ROME Pope Benedict XVI decried the rise in hunger in what he called a world often ruled by profit in an address to a food summit Monday shortly after it rebuffed a U.N. appeal to commit billions of dollars annually to helping farmers in poor countries. ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, San Diego Union-Tribune,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pope Benedict XVI,  Pope John Paul II,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Muammar al-Qaddafi,  Ban Ki-moon

UN summit approves new approach to hunger fight

ROME World leaders at a food summit on Monday rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger and help poor countries feed themselves, but failed to pledge funds sought by the U.N. The summit approved its final declaration during its first hours ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, San Diego Union-Tribune,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Food and Agriculture Organization,  Ban Ki-moon,  Pope Benedict XVI

UN summit to highlight need for agricultural aid

For the third time in less than a decade, a U.N. food summit will grapple with what so far has been an elusive goal _ slashing the number of the world's hungry. Activists of relief agency Action Aid hold a banner in front of the Colosseum, ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, Taiwan News,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pope Benedict XVI,  Food and Agriculture Organization,  United Nations

UN and Islamic bank make $1 billion farming deal

Funding from an Islamic bank will help develop agriculture in poor countries, a U.N. food agency said Sunday ahead of a summit to discuss the so-far elusive goal of reducing the number of hungry people in the world. The U.N. Food and Agriculture ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, Taiwan News,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Food and Agriculture Organization,  United Nations,  Pope Benedict XVI

Catholic clergy celibacy rule stands: Vatican

T he Vatican today confirmed that opening the door to married Anglican priests doesn't mean the Roman Catholic church is easing the requirement for celibacy for its clergy. The Holy See press office released rules and guidelines, known as an Apostolic ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, Globe and Mail,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pope Benedict XVI,  Christopher Hill

Vatican on Anglicans: celibacy rule unchanged

The Holy See press office released rules and guidelines, known as an Apostolic Constitution, as part of efforts to make it easier for disillusioned, traditionalist Anglicans to cross over to the Roman Catholic fold. Under the Vatican's initiative, ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, San Francisco Chronicle,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pope Benedict XVI,  Christopher Hill

Vatican: pope to meet Anglican chief

VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury next month in the leaders' first encounter since the Catholic church moved to make it easier for disenchanted Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, a Vatican spokesman said ...

From FRANCES D'EMILIO, Boston Globe,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Pope Benedict XVI,  Rowan Williams,  V. Gene Robinson

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