Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts
Friday, July 14, 2023

Burnings

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I noticed a one-paragraph story in this morning’s paper, one of those world news blurbs from the A.P. presumably used by an editor to fill u...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

U.N. Head Needs His Examined

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I just read that the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, a Portuguese socialist, is all aflutter about what he sees as an im...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

The Bad, the Ugly, and the Stupid

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Reading the news these days has become like a visit to one of those Ripley’s Believe it or Not  “museums” where one is confronted by the out...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

The United Nations Human Rights Council

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Did you catch the latest? I expect you did. Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State — yes, that’s our Secretary of State — has asked the   ...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Tragedy and Joy

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Down Syndrome is a genetic condition typified by the presence of an extra (third) chromosome 21 in the body's cells. Its cause is still ...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

News from Israel: Old and New

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I thought it might be interesting to share a few recent news items out of Israel -- some relate to current events while others touch on the ...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Greek Orthodox Priest Addresses UN on the Persecution of Christians

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In September Father Gabriel Naddaf, a Greek Orthodox priest from Nazareth spoke  to the United Nations Human Rights Council about the persec...