Economy that kills and excludes 'a perversion' says Pope

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 7 - A economy that kills, excludes and pollutes is a perversion, Pope Francis said in his message to the online meeting 'The Economy of Francesco' underway from Assisi.
    "The economy that kills, that excludes, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: others call it an economy, but it is only a void, an absence, it is a sickness, a perversion of the economy itself and of its vocation," said Francis.
    "The weapons made and sold for wars, the profits made at the expense of the most vulnerable and defenceless people, such as those who leave their land in search of a better future, the exploitation of resources and peoples that steals land and (ruins) health: all this is not economics, it is not a good centre of reality to be maintained," continued the pope. "It is only arrogance, violence, it is only a predatory set-up from which humanity must be freed," he concluded. (ANSA).