Tag: United Nations
Bishop Carlassare of South Sudan: ‘God’s love mends what we break,...
A Catholic bishop in South Sudan said the young and wounded nation was living the parable of Christmas, although violence, poverty and divisions appeared...
Vatican representative at U.N. calls for immediate end to Russia’s war...
The Holy See's diplomatic mission to the United Nations called for an end to Russia's war in Ukraine "not at some undefined moment in...
Archbishop Borys Gudziak: Russian drone attack on Ukrainian kindergarten shows ‘relentless...
PHILADELPHIA -- A U.S. Ukrainian Catholic archbishop is speaking out after Russian forces struck a kindergarten in Ukraine's second largest city, while killing two...
Peace, dignity emphasized at prayer service ahead of U.N. General Assembly
NEW YORK -- Pleas for peace and the dignity of every person from Catholic and United Nations leaders marked the United Nations Annual Prayer...
United States, China excluded from United Nation’s ‘Climate Ambition Summit’
Three days after more than 75,000 activists flooded the streets of New York City in a march demanding an end to fossil fuels, the...
Death penalty opponents disappointed with U.S. vote against global death penalty...
WASHINGTON -- When the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution Dec. 15 to establish a worldwide "moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing...
U.N. Human Rights Day points out ‘marketplace mentality’ and world refugee...
WASHINGTON -- The observance of U.N. Human Rights Day Dec. 10 brought to the fore past statements from two Catholic groups, pointing out that...
Pope Francis on World Food Day: divert money from military spending...
Repeating a call first made by St. Paul VI, Pope Francis urged a global move to divert money from national military spending and use...
Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, nuncio to United Nations, says economic inequities made...
UNITED NATIONS -- In an Oct. 7 address to the United Nations' Economic and Financial Committee, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Vatican's newly appointed nuncio,...
The U.N. at 75: Continuing to work for world-wide peace and...
The United Nations was born in 1945 out of the rubble and human devastation of World War II. Like its predecessor, the League of...