Pontiff calls for “good and transparent governance, integral human development and a wide and just distribution” of Africa’s goods.

Cardinal Turkson warns, “We clearly need a fundamental change of course, to protect the earth and its people – which, in turn, will allow us to ‘dignify humanity’."

"People’s health is influenced by factors such as poor housing, food security, unhealthy early childhood conditions and poor educational status”.

“We all have a part to play in protecting and sustaining our common home,” the President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace said in his keynote address on Pope Francis's “integral ecology”.