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Secretary-General's remarks on the Launch of the Fez Plan of Action
07/14/2017. The Plan is based on a unifying commitment to promote peace, understanding, mutual respect and the fundamental rights of all people. This includes the rights to freedom of religion and belief, opinion and expression, and peaceful association.
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Faith central to hope and resilience
07/14/2017. “Let us work together to prevent and end atrocity crimes and all affronts to human rights and dignity,”António Guterres
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Reconstruction for World Heritage Cultural Properties
03/23/2017. Engage together to preserve and pass on the heritage to future generations.
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AB Gallagher on Holy See's action to protect Christians
05/22/2017. The Holy See’s ‘foreign minister’, Archbishop Paul Gallagher full statement
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The continuing tragedy of Egypt’s Coptic Christians
05/30/2017. In the face of persecution and attacks for their faith, the Copts, who have persisted with their Christian faith in Egypt for the past 2,000 years, are making a statement by changing the chant.
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G7 culture ministers discuss threat of cultural trafficking
03/30/2017. The discussion is turning not just to the destruction of cultural treasures, as seen in Syria and Afghanistan, but also to their trafficking as a source of funding to support the activities of extremist groups
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Europe not immune to anti-Christian discrimination
03/31/2017.Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher called on an “institutionalized dialogue” at all levels between civil authorities and religious groups to help foster religious liberty.
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Bishop stresses church concern for common good
03.23.2017. The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace met with Rex Tillerson for a policy-packed 35-minute conversation.
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Pope urges EU leaders to ‘blaze the path of a new European humanism’
03/24/2017. Francis addresses 27 leaders on eve of Treaty of Rome anniversary
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UN envoy and Church leaders in DR Congo condemn attacks against Catholic facilities
02/24/2017. Those attacks were particularly violent in the provinces of Kinshasa, Haut-Katanga, Kasaï-Central and Kasaï-Oriental.
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