Pope Francis said the COVID-19
pandemic could create an "educational catastrophe" in a
video-message sent to participants of the Global Compact on
Education on Thursday.
"Recent figures by international agencies talk of an educational
catastrophe, with around 10 million children that could be
forced to leave school because of the economic crisis generated
by the coronavirus, increasing the already alarming educational
gap, with over 250 million children of school age excluded," the
pope said
The pope added that access to distance learning so far during
the pandemic has highlighted inequalities.
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