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Pope Francis: ‘Our world’s problem is not the number of children born into it’
July 12, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: In a tweet for World Population Day, Pope Francis wrote that “our world’s problem is not the number of children born into it.”
“The problem is selfishness, consumerism and individualism, which make people satiated, lonely and unhappy,” he added.
The United Nations commemorates World Population Day on July 11, the day in 1987 in which the world’s population was estimated to have reached 5 billion.
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