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January 14, 2016

Price of peace

Price of peace

Addressing U.S. congress last September, Pope Francis bluntly dissected the multi-billion-dollar international arms industry.

Published in Editorial
March 18, 2015

Patriarch rejects calls for outside military intervention in Syria

A man carries the body of a child after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus Feb. 5.

VATICAN CITY - The head of the Melkite Catholic Church rejected outright all calls for an international military intervention in Syria and urged Pope Francis and all Christian churches to "promote a concrete and realistic road map" to peace in the beleaguered nation.

Published in International
February 21, 2012

Arms treaty need to protect poor, Vatican's UN observer says

According to the United Nations, "The global trade in conventional weapons -- from warships and battle tanks to fighter jets and machine guns -- remains poorly regulated. No set of internationally agreed standards exist to ensure that arms are only transferred for appropriate use."

VATICAN CITY - The unregulated sale and transfer of weapons and weapons' technology harm the poor and threaten peace and security around the world, a Vatican official told a U.N. meeting.

Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations, addressed a committee preparing for the U.N. Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty; the conference will be in July.

Published in International