Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic Archives - Page 3 of 4

Everyone must have affordable health care, Vatican official says

May 25, 2018

Everyone should have access to essential health services and no one should have to fall into poverty to obtain needed care, a Vatican representative said.

By Carol Glatz

Vatican official tells UN Holy Land needs peace with justice, dialogue

May 18, 2018

Mourning the deaths of protesters in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, the Vatican’s observer at U.N. agencies in Geneva urged people on both sides to let “wisdom and prudence prevail.”

By Catholic News Service

Killer robots will make war even more inhumane, Vatican official says

Apr 12, 2018

Allowing for the development and use of fully automated lethal weapons systems would make warfare even more inhumane and undermine efforts to achieve peace through dialogue, not an arms race, a Vatican representative said.

By Carol Glatz

Vatican official warns U.N. of hostility toward religion

Mar 5, 2018

As the world has grown increasingly interconnected, some nations have seen religious pluralism as a threat and reacted either by failing to protect religious minorities or by trying to marginalize all believers, a Vatican representative said.

By Catholic News Service

Find ways to keep migrant families together, Vatican official says

Oct 12, 2017

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, Vatican observer to UN agencies in Geneva, said we must devise frameworks that help keep families together, including migrant families. Some ways to do that, he said, would include keeping migrant families together as well as making available more legal and “dignified pathways” for migration.

By Carol Glatz

Vatican official condemns discrimination against women

Sep 27, 2017

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, Vatican permanent observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva, told the Human Rights Council that women provide “an irreplaceable value in political, economic and social life,” and he emphasized the need to eliminate any form of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance toward women.

By Matt Fowler