Pontiff Makes Appeal for Congo
High-Level Meeting at UN Considers Solutions for Conflict-Plagued Region
View ArticleInternational Day of the Girl Child ignores killing of girls by sex-selective...
by Thaddeus Baklinski TORONTO, October 10, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Nations has declared October 11, 2012 as the world’s first International Day of the Girl Child. The day was established...
View ArticleHuman Rights Day in Canada: from ‘never again’ to ‘til next time’
by Jonathon van Maren Today, as some of you may know, is celebrated worldwide as “Human Rights Day,” where politicians and leaders of all stripes and ideologies climb onto their bully pulpits and...
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The United Nations’ five worst moments for life and the family in 2012
by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. NEW YORK, December 20, 2012, (C-FAM) As we look back over the year 2012, here are five of the worst moments for human life, dignity, and the family at the United Nations. 1....
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UNFPA & YWCA at the United Nations: ‘reproductive health’ top priorities
by Alissa Golob Guest post by Cassie Farrell. Cassie is one of several young men and women from Campaign Life Coalition Youth who are taking part in the 57th Commission on the Status of Women at the...
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Failing to offer abortion is ‘torture,’ according to UN report
by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman NEW YORK, March 7, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Nations' top official on torture has issued a report declaring that refusing to allow legalized abortion of children...
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Pro-life activists at the UN heartened by the election of Pope Francis
by Rai Rojas NEW YORK, March 15, 2013 (National Right to Life News) - During the course of the last 19 years I have often reported about events happening at the United Nations from inside the United...
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Get out your stripey socks…and celebrate World Down Syndrome Day!
by Mary O’Neill Le Rumeur March 20, 2013 (Mercatornet.com) - 21 March 2013. It's World Down Syndrome Day, for just the second time, since the date was established by the United Nations last year. A day...
View Article"I’ve Got Down Syndrome. So What?"
Today's World Down Syndrome Day is now in its second year of recognition by the United Nations. A statement on the Day from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon affirms that discrimination against people...
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Holy See to UN on Human Trafficking
Here is the statement by Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, at the UN High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Global...
View ArticleOn the Environment
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like to dwell on the issue of the environment, as I have already had the chance to do on several occasions. It's timely also on account of today's World...
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UN declines pressure to form a special LGBT office
by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. GENEVA, June 13, 2013 (C-FAM) - In a loss for homosexual groups at the United Nations, member states declined to establish a special UN office for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
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Organization for American States targeted by international abortion groups
by LifeSiteNews staff June 13, 2013 - It is a well-known fact that certain treaty body committees at the United Nations are notorious for distorting the meaning of a treaty and telling countries they...
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UN Dedicates International Day of Charity to Blessed Mother Teresa
Today, the United Nations (UN) commemorated the anniversary of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta by declaring September 5th as the International Day of Charity. According to the UN website, the...
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Homily From Holy See’s Observer at UN on Peace in Syria
Here is the homily given Saturday, the Day of Fasting and Prayer for Peace in Syria, by Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt, apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United...
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Eleven countries, including U.S., promise to keep homosexuality on UN agenda
by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. NEW YORK, October 4 (C-FAM) - Eleven countries announced they will continue to hoist the rainbow flag at the United Nations despite setbacks in recent years. U. S. Secretary...
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Vatican to UN: Recommendations on ‘safe’ abortion and gay education...
by John-Henry Westen UNITED NATIONS, October 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the representative of the Holy See to the United Nations, told the UN on Friday that...
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Archbishop Francis Chulllikatt’s Address to the UN General Assembly on...
Here is the address given by Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, during the 68th session of the UN General Assembly regarding...
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Holy See Permanent Observer to the UN Calls For Complete Weapons Disarmament
In an address given at the United Nations to the first committee of the 68th UN General Assembly, the Holy See called for “general and complete” weapons disarmament. Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the...
View ArticleHoly See Presents Sex-Abuse Assessment to U.N. Panel
By EDWARD PENTIN | GENEVA — The Holy See gave a detailed assessment of its handling of clerical sex abuse cases for the first time today in front of an international panel at the United Nations, during...
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Thousands defend Holy See’s UN status against attacks
New York City, N.Y., Jan 21, 2014 / 04:35 am (CNA).- Catholics have joined with members of other faiths to support the Holy See's permanent observer status at the United Nations, defending against a...
View ArticleThousands Defend Holy See’s U.N. Status Against Attacks
By CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY | NEW YORK — Catholics have joined with members of other faiths to support the Holy See’s permanent observer status at the United Nations, defending against a group of abortion...
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C-FAM’s long journey to official UN recognition
by Austin Ruse WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2014 (C-FAM.org) - A UN committee agreed this week by consensus that C-FAM be granted “special consultative status” with the United Nations. Such status...
View ArticleA Clever Ruse Foils U.N. Ideologues
By JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND | Austin Ruse is the president of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), which recently won “special consultative status” from the United Nations as a...
View ArticleUN anti-Vatican report ‘payback’ for pro-life work, critic says
New York City, N.Y., Feb 13, 2014 / 12:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A recent United Nations report criticizing the Catholic Church on sex abuse and its moral teachings should be understood in the context of...
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Reggie Littlejohn to United Nations: Forced abortion continues in China,...
by Reggie Littlejohn Editor’s note: The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) is “the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender...
View ArticleLawyer identifies key groups in European persecution of Christians
Rome, Italy, Mar 30, 2014 / 07:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Legal counsel Paul Coleman has spoken of the increasing persecution of Christians in Europe, identifying the main groups driving ideological...
View ArticleU.N. Registers Lebanon’s Millionth Syrian Refugee
By CNA/EWTN NEWS | BEIRUT, Lebanon — The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon registered with the United Nations has now passed 1 million, as the organization’s refugee agency stresses the urgent need...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Visits Pope Francis
The leading executive officers of the United Nations’ agencies, funds and programs were received this morning at the Vatican Apostolic Palace by Pope Francis this morning. The members, led by UN...
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Msgr. Paglia: Why say ‘forever’ to a soccer team, but not to a husband or...
To mark this particular day, Msgr. Vicenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, will travel to New York. He will speak before the United Nations, on the modern challenges and...
View ArticleArchbishop to U.N.: Family Must Be Renewed, Not Broken Down
By CNA/EWTN NEWS | NEW YORK — The family has a “unique character” that makes it a “patrimony for all humanity,” Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, told the...
View ArticleChile to abandon consistent pro-life stance at UN
Santiago, Chile, Jun 12, 2014 / 02:07 pm (CNA).- In a radical policy shift, the government of Chile will alter its human rights stance at the United Nations by abandoning the defense of life from the...
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