NEW YORK CITY: From the day it was founded, the role and responsibilities of the United Nations’ secretary-general have been somewhat ambiguous. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ambivalence of the victorious Allied powers towards the post, once dubbed “the most impossible job on this earth,” was evident from the very first meeting 75 years ago.
When the discussion turned to the appointment of the first secretary-general, the Allies Britain, France, China, the US and the Soviet Union took a firm stand against a secretary-general directly elected by the General Assembly and defended the veto power they later came to possess over the appointment process as Permanent Members of the Security Council.
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Pope Francis: 2020 Saw a ‘Surge’ in Nationalism, Racism, Xenophobia
17 Dec 2020
The year 2020 was marked by the global coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said Thursday, but also saw a worrisome a surge in “nationalism, racism, and xenophobia.”
“Sad to say,” alongside all testimonies of love and solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic, “we have also seen a surge in various forms of nationalism, racism and xenophobia, and wars and conflicts that bring only death and destruction in their wake,” he said in his message for the 2021 World Day of Peace, released Thursday.
In recent months, the pope has returned time and again to the topic of nationalism, tying it to the human person’s lowest instincts.
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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ
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as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him.
All Christian should argue for the integrity of every individual person made in the image of God, and that the gospel, if we re going to be faithful to that gospel and faithful to biblical anthropology, requires us to be engaged as advocates for the sanctity of human life wherever we encounter it.