UN accepts UAE initiative to proclaim 4 February as International Day for Human Fraternity 22 December 2020 22:26 Share in:
NEW YORK. KAZINFORM The United Nations General Assembly has adopted by consensus a resolution proclaiming 4th February as «International Day for Human Fraternity.» Related news The initiative was introduced by the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and as a result the international community will observe International Day for Human Fraternity annually beginning in 2021, WAM reports.
Prior to the adoption of the resolution, Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the UAE to the UN, told the UN General Assembly, «In recent years, the world has been witnessing a dramatic increase in violence, hate speech, xenophobia, religious bigotry, and other forms of discrimination. In the face of such transnational threats, we need to support initiatives that encourage sol
Education on diversity fosters religious brotherhood
Vatican official reveals how Abu Dhabi document on fraternity can be realized in Indonesia
Divine Word Father Markus Solo Kewuta. (Photo supplied)
An Indonesian official at the Vatican has stressed the need to educate people better on religious diversity to see the goals set out in a groundbreaking document signed in Abu Dhabi last year by Pope Francis and the grand imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, materialize in Indonesia.
Signed on Feb. 4, 2019, the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together
“believes firmly that among the most important causes of crises in the modern world are a desensitized human conscience, a distancing from religious values and a prevailing individualism accompanied by materialistic philosophies that deify the human person and introduce worldly and material values in place of supreme and transcendental principle.”
This is why His Holiness Pope Francis will go to Iraq
Father Rif’at Bader, Director of The Catholic Center for Studies and Media (CCSM), provides historical and contextual background to Pope Francis scheduled Apostolic Journey to Iraq in March 2021.
By Fr. Rif’at Bader
Iraq is a sacred country. It was inhabited by prophets, the oldest of whom was Abraham, who headed from the Chaldean Ur to the Holy land, where the era of prophecy began in the old times. Iraq is the country of Prophet Jonah who lived in Nineveh and called for repentance and permanent return to God. It is also the country in which the people were exiled in the Old Testament during a merciless trip called exile to Babylon.