‘Abandoned by all’: Vatican newspaper laments plight of starving Afghans (L’Osservatore Romano (Italian))

In the most prominent article in its October 2 edition, L’Osservatore Romano’s editors lamented the situation of starving Afghans, who are not permitted by the Taliban to leave for neighboring Pakistan. “Thousands of people, in need of everything, they remain thus abandoned to themselves,” in the words of the unsigned article. “Abandoned by all.”