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UN ambassadors encouraged to follow example of Archbishop Romero
- Church in the US, Global Church
- September 12, 2017
At the annual prayer service for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, participants were encouraged to follow the example of Archbishop Óscar Romero who was martyred for standing up to government abuse and promoting human dignity.
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Vatican calls on United States, other countries, to join cluster bomb ban
- Vatican
- September 7, 2017
The Vatican is appealing to all countries outside the convention to ban cluster bombs to consider “joining the global efforts and our common goal in building together a more humane, more secure and more cooperative world,” adding, “We owe this to the too many victims of the past and to prevent further victims.”
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Vatican supports “responsibility to protect” populations from war crimes, genocide
- Vatican
- September 7, 2017
The Vatican’s representative to the United Nations, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, said the Vatican supported initiatives such as a Code of Conduct regarding UN Security Council action against genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity, “as well as the inclusion of mandates to protect civilians in peacekeeping operations.”
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Papal aid calls for legal migration channels to end ‘travesty’ of human trafficking
- Global Church
- September 4, 2017
Jesuit Father Michael Czerny – handpicked by Pope Francis to be Undersecretary of the Section for Migrants and Refugees at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development – praised the “great achievements” of international agreements, which have helped asylum seekers and migrants, but acknowledged that despite these, many “are still and ever more vulnerable, especially to criminal organizations.”
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Central African priests use Facebook to express outrage, appeal for help
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- August 23, 2017
Aid organizations have reported worsening violence throughout 2017 in the Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries. Violence is mainly between armed remnants of Seleka, a Muslim-dominated rebel movement that briefly seized power in 2013, and a mainly Christian militia, Anti-Balaka.
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Irish bishops tell priests who father children to “face up” to responsibilities
- Global Church
- August 21, 2017
The bishops of Ireland say that in the case of a child fathered by a Catholic priest, the priest should not walk away from his responsibilities – legal, moral and financial. The guidelines written by the Irish Bishops’ Conference were written as the Vatican faces a deadline to respond to UN recommendations to “assess the number of children fathered by Catholic priests, find out who they are and take all necessary measures to ensure that the rights of those children to know and to be cared for by their fathers is respected.”
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