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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...

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights presents challenges more than...

"No one shall be held in slavery or servitude," the United Nations declared in the fourth article of its 1948 landmark Universal Declaration of...

Pope Francis joins U.N. appeal for global cease-fire amid the threat...

VATICAN CITY -- Saying conflicts can never be resolved with war, Pope Francis added his support to a U.N. appeal for a global cease-fire...

United Nations report on gender equality attacks religious freedom, says official

GENEVA — A United Nations report addressing gender-based violence and discrimination connected to religious beliefs “is now attacking the very reality it is called...

Trump calls on world leaders to end persecution of ‘people of...

UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump called on world leaders at a Sept. 23 U.N. event on religious freedom to end religious persecution around...

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