Pope asks hungry children around the world

VATICAN CITY (EFE). dad Francisco called to think of the many Hungry children that there is in the world today and denounced that "The food is not a private property", during the general audience held in the Plaza de San Pedro.

The Sovereign Pontiff He continued today his reflections on the prayer of the Lord's Prayer and stopped on the following sentence: "Give us our daily bread".

"We think of children in war-torn countries: hungry children from Yemen, hungry children from Syria, hungry children from many countries without bread, in southern Sudan."

"When we think of them together, we say the prayer aloud:" Father, give us today the bread of every day, "he added.

He recalled the value of these words in parts of the world where there is nothing to eat.

Torment for parents and mothers

"How many mothers and fathers, even today, are sleeping with the torment of not having enough bread for their children tomorrow," he continued. Francisco.

"We imagine that this prayer is recited not in the safety of a comfortable apartment, but in the precariousness of a room in which we adapt, where there is not enough life" , he said.

Pope He emphasized the need to "feel in my hunger the hunger of many people who are still lacking in what is needed today".

Food, a providence to share

Because, he stressed, food is not a property, we have a cool head, but a providence to share with the grace of God.

In the welcome message in Spanish, the Sovereign Pontiff asked the Lord "not to miss our daily bread and help us understand that it is not a private property, but that, aided by his thanks, it is a providence to share and a meeting opportunity of others, especially the poor and the needy ".