Fighting Poverty To Build Peace --Part 6

Quotes from the Message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace
Fighting Poverty To Build Peace
January 1, 2009

Children are the most vulnerable victims.

“When poverty strikes a family, the children prove to be the most vulnerable victims: almost half of those living in absolute poverty today are children. To take the side of children when considering poverty means giving priority to those objectives which concern them most directly, such as caring for mothers, commitment to education, access to vaccines, medical care and drinking water, safeguarding the environment, and above all, commitment to defense of the family and the stability of relations within it. When the family is weakened, it is inevitably children who suffer. If the dignity of women and mothers is not protected, it is the children who are affected most” (no. 5).