{"id":1142145,"date":"2021-12-22T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142145"},"modified":"2021-12-22T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:19:26","slug":"vatican-says-children-the-most-vulnerable-victims-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-says-children-the-most-vulnerable-victims-of-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Says Children the \u2018Most Vulnerable Victims\u2019 of the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvatican-says-children-the-most-vulnerable-victims-of-the-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142145&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/sri-lanka-christian-church-at-prayer-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME, Italy \u2014 The Vatican said Wednesday that children have been the \u201cmost vulnerable victims\u201d of the coronavirus pandemic, despite their remarkable resistance to the disease itself.<\/p>\n<p>Although children have accounted for a miniscule percentage of deaths from the coronavirus, the pandemic \u201chas thrown countless children into severe poverty and left many without parents and caregivers,\u201d reads the <a href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/it\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2021\/12\/22\/0872\/01839.html#en\">text<\/a> from the COVID-19 Vatican Commission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In Italy, for instance, coronavirus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicentro.iss.it\/coronavirus\/bollettino\/Bollettino-sorveglianza-integrata-COVID-19_15-dicembre-2021.pdf\">deaths<\/a> of children under 20 years of age make up significantly less than one tenth of one percent (0.001) of all coronavirus casualties in the country, making them statistically irrelevant. But children have borne the brunt of the fallout from political and social measures established to curb the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorldwide, there has been increased exploitation of and violence against children and reduced or suspended access to educational facilities,\u201d it asserts. \u201cGovernments, civil society organizations, and the Church must come together to alleviate the escalating suffering of the most vulnerable children among us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSudden global increases in severe poverty, rising food insecurity, and public quarantine measures have put major stress on households,\u201d the Vatican text states, noting that reports of \u201cviolence, abuse, and exploitation of children have sharply increased since the pandemic began.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Children \u201care facing sharp increases in household poverty\u201d and after \u201cdecades of poverty reduction, Covid-19 plunged 150 million children into poverty,\u201d it continues. \u201cFor the first time in decades, the number of children in child labor rose, reaching 160 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the prime causes of negative consequences for children have been school closings, the text proposes, which have resulted in stunted education as well as isolation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 168 million children missed an entire school year during the first twelve months of the pandemic, and many more experienced reduced or remote schooling,\u201d it declares. \u201cThis will lead to an estimated loss of US$10 trillion in future earnings for this generation, compounded by additional economic losses from early childhood education closures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The text from the Vatican\u2019s COVID-19 Commission was released in parallel with a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/it\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2021\/12\/22\/0871\/01838.html#en\">document<\/a> on the same topic by the Pontifical Academy for Life.<\/p>\n<p>That separate text made an impassioned appeal for the reopening of schools around the world, insisting that measures such as school closings and lockdowns have created a devastating \u201cparallel pandemic,\u201d whose effects are being felt globally.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, Italy \u2014 The Vatican said Wednesday that children have been the \u201cmost vulnerable victims\u201d of the coronavirus pandemic, despite their remarkable resistance to the disease itself. 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