Church leaders need to prepare for realities of 'post-peak' restrictions
- Apr 10, 2020
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Humanitarians call for end to Syria’s civil war, entering 10th year
- Mar 17, 2020
Humanitarians caring for displaced Syrians in and outside their country are calling for an end to Syria’s brutal civil war as it enters its 10th year. The magnitude of displacement, death and destruction in Syria marks one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises right now, the United Nations and human rights groups have said.
Vincentians play key role in U.N. commission’s focus on world’s homeless
- Mar 11, 2020
The U.N. Commission for Social Development, at its annual meeting in February, adopted a resolution that calls for world governments to begin to address the housing needs of an estimated 100 million-plus people worldwide who have no home at all.
UN Secretary General Guterres to receive Path to Peace Award
- Mar 11, 2020
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres will receive the annual top prize for the Path to Peace Foundation.
Protestors seek female ordination during Women’s Day march in New York
- Mar 10, 2020
Protestors in favor of women’s ordination marched from the United Nations to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on International Women’s Day.
UN report on gender equality attacks religious freedom, says official
- Mar 5, 2020
A United Nations report addressing gender-based violence and discrimination connected to religious beliefs “is now attacking the very reality it is called to defend,” a Vatican representative told a U.N. meeting in Geneva.
Abuse victims look to Vatican after UN meetings in Geneva
- Feb 19, 2020
Three deaf victims of sexual abuse by priests in Argentina wrapped up a string of meetings with United Nations human rights officials in Geneva on Wednesday, hoping to build pressure on the Vatican — and Pope Francis himself — to come clean about the crimes committed against them.
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