World Food Day

The Vatican on Friday also released the first images of Pope Leo since his surgery, showing him celebrating the noon Mass.

Meanwhile, in his message to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization for World Food Day 2026, marked on Friday the sixteenth of October, Pope Leo XIV calls for food to be recognized as a basic human right.

The Pope in his message insists that bread must never be used as a weapon of war and urges the international community to show the moral audacity needed to combat hunger.

Deborah Castellano Lubov reports.

Regular access to safe, adequate, and sufficient food in keeping with the dignity of every person is a basic human right, and guaranteeing this right is an obligation of justice that binds both individual states and the international community.

Pope Leo XIV offered this reminder in the message he sent to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization on the occasion of this year's World Food Day.

The Pope stressed that despite technological advancement being greater than ever before, it is intolerable that bread should be considered a privilege and water a contested commodity.

He observed that while innovations accelerate production, distribution is being neglected.

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Happy World Food Day.

Now, if you don't know what that is, well, we're gonna break it down for you.

Yeah.

World Food Day is a day when we focus on fighting hunger and malnutrition, and we also promote all of our sustainable food systems that we have in place.

And we're here with someone who does exactly that, and I'm so excited to share about this program.

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So to all of the hardworking supervisors, managers, business owners, and leaders across Southeastern Oklahoma, Happy Bosses Day.

It's also World Food Day.

I mean, this one has a pretty meaningful purpose.

World Food Day is recognized every October 16th to bring attention to hunger, food security, and the importance of sustainable agriculture.

It's also National Dictionary Day.

That's right, October 16 marks the birthday of Noah Webster, the man whose work helped shape the American dictionary.

Quickly, the national holidays.

National Bosses Day, World Food Day, Dictionary Day, Global Cat Day, World Spine Day, World Bread Day, and Department Store Day.

All right, let's get to that riddle.

A pilot crashes a plane.

The Lions, uh, Rugby company says Andrews was a valued member of the family, and his loss will be felt profoundly by his teammates, coaches, and supporters.

There's a call for access to safe, nutritious, and affordable food and to end hunger on this World Food Day.

It comes just as South Africa wrapped up National Nutrition Week yesterday.

A Durban-based group, WeFeedSA, provides more than fifty thousand meals a month.

Oh, there's a new one.

World Food Day, World, s- uh, Spine Day.

You know what? We're gonna go with, um...

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That's Ottawa area farmer Wyatt McWilliams outlining his concerns about a high-speed rail project that could impact his farm and those of his neighbors.

And today is World Food Day, an anniversary that was founded by the UN more than eighty years ago.

The day is celebrated in more than one hundred and fifty countries and is used to raise awareness about hunger, food security, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture.

The theme this year is innovate today, nourish tomorrow.

I just know too many people whose, whose families have been affected by breast cancer and where some of it would have been easier to deal with had people known earlier.

Like I said, generic on the food front, it is World Food Day.

That's about as generic as it gets.

It's a little bit more specific when it gets to World Bread Day, but again, it's not any specific type of bread.

Okay.

Anyway, uh, World Food Day today.

Yay for food.

Exactly.