U.N. ACKNOWLEDGES CHURCH’S WORLD ROLE

Last week, the President of the U.N. General Assembly met the Pope in Rome in talks focussed on the Church’s “contribution to peace and development and cooperation between religions and cultures.”
The previous day, the director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, Mr Graziano da Silva expressed to the Pope great appreciation “for the commitment shown by the Church to combating hunger and poverty.”