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European farmers’ protest denied entry to Vatican—along with star cow

February 12, 2024

ROME – As part of continent-wide protests against low food prices and rising costs, a small delegation of farmers on Sunday led a cow that has become a symbol of the uprising toward St. Peter’s Square for the Pope’s traditional noontime Angelus address. They were turned away before being able to enter. Convoys of farmers

Why French farmers have the support of the Church in their protest movement

February 05, 2024

The tractors have lifted their blockades of Paris and other major French cities, and the farmers have made their way home. Their two-week nationwide protest movement was suspended on Friday, 2 February, after Emmanuel Macron’s government announced a series of measures – financial and administrative – to alleviate the suffering, the anger and the despair

Pope Francis: ‘The world must do more to help the hungry’

November 20, 2014

The Pope spoke at the Second International Conference on Nutrition