Posts Tagged ‘United Nations’
The 63rd UN Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) Conference: “I experienced both Worry and Hope”:
The United Nations and the Department of Public Information sponsors and annual conference for NGO’s. This year’s conference was held in Melbourne Australia on August 30 through September 1st. The issues of the Millennium Development Goals which were set for 2015 are the focus for this and many other NGO conferences. Marita Stretch is a ... Read more
THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE: TO WHOM DO WE LISTEN?
The following article is written by Fr. Kevin Dance, CP who is the Director of Passionists International at the United Nations. Below is a Cap and Trade video by “The Story of Stuff” Project which Fr. Kevin suggest is informative regarding the Cap and Trade issue. The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen broke up ... Read more
Passionists and the struggle against Human Trafficking
Passionists International is the U.N. Office for the Passionist communities throughout the world. Through Passionists International the Passionist family addresses global issues of social concern that relate to our own Christian values of being in solidarity with those who suffer from social injustice. In the recent social encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI the Catholic Church spoke out againts ... Read more
United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, New York, June 24-26, 2009
By Fr. Kevin Dance, CP When the governments of the world met in Doha, Qatar in December 2008 to review progress made in the area of financing for development, the first rumblings of financial chaos could be felt. It was decided that the spreading financial and economic global crisis called for a follow up conference ... Read more
A Crisis that Affects Us All
(The following post was offered by Fr. Kevin Dance, CP of Passionist International who attended the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development.) The financial and economic crisis that has swamped the world points to an urgent need to reform the international financial system to meet the ... Read more
Globalization and the Passion
Globalization is a priori neither good nor bad. It is what people make of it. What is at stake is the quality of globalization. Likewise what is at stake is the quality of the contributions we bring. -Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, 2002 These comments by Archbishop ... Read more
Lectionary Reflection: Fourth Sunday of Lent
Readings: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 Thoughts for your consideration: by Fr. Stephen Dunn, CP Last Sunday’s Gospel re-lived Jesus’ surprising and prophetic act of “cleansing” the Temple which had been magnificently re-built by King Herod. Today’s reading from Chronicles takes us further back in the history of the Temple. Back when ... Read more
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