GA / HOLY SEE

In a video message, Pope Francis told the General Assembly’s General Debate that the COVID-19 pandemic can be a time “for rethinking our way of life and our economic and social systems, which are widening the gap between rich and poor.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:54
• Production Date: 25 September 2020
• Asset Language: Spanish
• Personal Subject: POPE FRANCIS
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: DISEASE CONTROL; EQUALITY; GENERAL DEBATE; POVERTY
• Geographic Subject: HOLY SEE
• MAMS Id: 2563049
• Parent Id: 2563049
• Alternate Title: unifeed200925g

Description

STORY: GA / HOLY SEE
TRT: 01:54
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGE: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 25 SEPTEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

RECENT NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, United Nations exterior

25 SEPTEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. Med shot, delegate
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pope Francis, Sovereign, Holly See:
“The pandemic, indeed, calls us to seize this time of trial as a time of choosing, a time to choose what matters and what passes away, a time to separate what is necessary from what is not. It can represent a concrete opportunity for conversion, for transformation, for rethinking our way of life and our economic and social systems, which are widening the gap between rich and poor.”
5. Med shot, delegate
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pope Francis, Sovereign, Holly See:
“The other path emphasizes self-sufficiency, nationalism, protectionism, individualism and isolation; it excludes the poor, the vulnerable and those dwelling on the peripheries of life. That path would certainly be detrimental to the whole community, causing self-inflicted wounds on everyone. It must not prevail.”
7. Med shot, delegate
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pope Francis, Sovereign, Holly See:
“The current crisis offers an opportunity for the United Nations to help build a more fraternal and compassionate society. This includes reconsidering the role of economic and financial institutions, like that of Bretton-Woods, which must respond to the rapidly growing inequality between the super-rich and the permanently poor.”
9. Wide shot, General Assembly

Storyline

In a video message, Pope Francis today (25 Sep) told the General Assembly’s General Debate that the COVID-19 pandemic can be a time “for rethinking our way of life and our economic and social systems, which are widening the gap between rich and poor.”

Francis said the pandemic “calls us to seize this time of trial as a time of choosing, a time to choose what matters and what passes away, a time to separate what is necessary from what is not.”

The other path, he said, “emphasizes self-sufficiency, nationalism, protectionism, individualism and isolation; it excludes the poor, the vulnerable and those dwelling on the peripheries of life.”

That path, he added, “would certainly be detrimental to the whole community, causing self-inflicted wounds on everyone. It must not prevail.”

The Head of the Catholic Church said, “the current crisis offers an opportunity for the United Nations to help build a more fraternal and compassionate society. This includes reconsidering the role of economic and financial institutions, like that of Bretton-Woods, which must respond to the rapidly growing inequality between the super-rich and the permanently poor.”

Pope Francis’s comments were pre-recorded and aired in the General Assembly Hall as previously agreed by the General Assembly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the inability to gather world leaders in New York as customary, this year’s General Debate will witness the largest-ever participation of heads of states and government in UN history.