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Leo XIV in France: Which Christianity Is the Vatican Now Promoting? Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic journey to France appears as a call to awaken hope and recover Europe’s Christian roots, but in substance it reveals the adoption of a horizontal and multilateral humanism, in which the Catholic faith is reduced to an ethical and social force at the service of a pacified and desacralized global coexistence.Pope Leo XIV’s journey to France, from September 25 to 28, was received by the media and the world at large as a major pastoral success. The press, both French and international, particularly highlighted the...

Led by Bahrain, 80 countries complained to the UN Security Council that "Iran and the Houthis threaten international security, navigational rights, and freedoms. Innocent lives are being put at risk." They called for "the full and immediate reopening of the Hormuz Strait, without the imposition of unlawful fees, conditions or payments and the end of Houthi attacks on Red Sea vessels and Saudi oil pipelines." Thousands of protesters demonstrated outside UN headquarters in New York City calling for the UN General Assembly to take action against the Iranian regime's massacres of peaceful opponents. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council...

The United Nations human rights office has expanded its controversial database of companies operating in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, adding 61 firms to the list, Reuters reported Friday. The database, first released in 2020, now contains 214 companies. Most are Israeli, while firms from 10 other countries are also included, among them France, Germany, China and the United States. The list was condemned by the US during the first Trump administration. Among the companies newly included are Israeli pesticide manufacturer ADAMA, which is owned by China’s Syngenta Group, Israeli real estate investment company Alony Hetz and Spain-based Salvat...

A mass walkout of delegates before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly prompted a fiery response from the Israeli leader. As Netanyahu took the stage, dozens of delegates from across the globe could be seen streaming out of the chamber in New York City. Chants of protest could also be heard in the hall as the U.N. president called the assembly to order. After taking the stage, Netanyahu said, "Before I begin, just a quick announcement, if there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall, please do so now," as...

Northern Ireland Friends of Israel.They want you to believe that Israel is isolated on the world stage.Here we list what the leaders of 75 nations around the world have said about strengthening relations with Israel since 2023.It is difficult to think of any other country as small as Israel inspiring such warm friendship and admiration from around the world.Whether you are a friend of Israel or not, you owe it to yourself to sit down, have a cup of tea and scan down our list!Northern Ireland Friends of IsraelAlbania.Name & Title: Edi Rama, Prime MinisterDate: 26 January 2026Quote: Albania is...

In his September 24, 2026, address to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s strikes on Iran and its conduct in Gaza, describing the years since October 7 as a seven-front war. Recalling the Six-Day War and his brother Yoni’s role in the Entebbe rescue, he repeated the refrain, “We have no other choice.” Delegates staged a walkout as the speech began, prompting Netanyahu to invite any remaining “moral cowards” to leave. He praised President Donald Trump, rejected accusations of genocide, and sharply criticized New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Qatar, and Turkey. He also voiced support for...

Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei struck again, this time in a fiery speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, calling the body "useless" and made up of "fatally arrogant parasites." Milei began by commending the U.N.’s founding mission of resolving conflict peacefully and promoting universal freedom and dignity as "noble words." However, he went on to say that "today, regrettably, it is time to acknowledge that, in practice, that sacred covenant has been broken." "That’s to say, it has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as...

Thousands of anti-regime protesters gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan on Tuesday to demand an end to Iran’s execution of political prisoners and to establish a free democracy in the country. The demonstration, led by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), called for world leaders at the UN General Assembly to act and force the Islamic republic to end the latest surge in executions, with at least 100 political prisoners currently on death row. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the NCRI, slammed the presence of Iranian leaders, including President Masoud Pezeshkian, at the UN meeting as she...

President Donald Trump revealed a major decision he is considering regarding the conflict with Iran during his Sept. 22 address to the U.N. General Assembly. In his speech, Trump reiterated his administration’s position that Iran cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon and outlined how the U.S. military has targeted Iran’s navy, missile capabilities, and nuclear development. “But now I have a big decision to make: Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even...

Aerospace and defense stocks fell broadly Tuesday as President Donald Trump raised the prospect of a negotiated end to the U.S. conflict with Iran during an address to the United Nations, while warning that military action could intensify if Tehran refuses to reach an agreement. V2X (VVX) fell about 3.8%, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) dropped 3.7% and Karman Holdings (KRMN) declined 3.5%. BAE Systems (BAESF)(BAESY) was down 2.9%, Northrop Grumman (NOC) fell 2.8% and Lockheed Martin (LMT) lost 2.7%. General Dynamics (GD), Huntington Ingalls (HII), L3Harris Technologies (LHX) and RTX (RTX) also traded lower. The declines came as...

The former director of Panama’s border patrol told The Epoch Times that the United Nations’ migration agenda is behind the chaos at the U.S. southern border and that U.N. partners are making things worse instead of better. image-5593282 Oriel Ortega, now a security and defense consultant to Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo, said during a Feb. 22 interview that he saw a jump in migration in 2016, at the same time that more nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) moved into Panama. That increase corresponded with the U.N.’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration meeting in 2016. Two years later, 152 nations—including...

The White House came out swinging against a United Nations-sponsored investigation that found “reasonable grounds” to conclude the US committed war crimes in Iran and should pay “full reparations to victims.”“The UN Human Rights Council has accomplished nothing for human rights while spouting unserious nonsense for decades,” said White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly. “The only party in this conflict that has committed war crimes is the Iranian regime, which has murdered thousands of its own people, killed Americans overseas, executed acts of terrorism in the Strait of Hormuz, and launched indiscriminate attacks against its neighbors in the...

[Updated frequently]The genocide lieThe "Genocide" lie isn't a debate over facts—it's a coldly orchestrated political weapon: funded, coordinated, and laser-focused on forcing one toxic smear-word into every mouth, every headline, every official statement, through endless online swarms and staged street theater.The cheapening of the wordThe Genocide Lie: Why the Accusation Against Israel Collapses Under Scrutiny. [Notes | Current "genesis" | Urban warfare: combating 'Palestinian' exploitation of civilians and Israel innovating tactics to protect lives | Trendy 'Pallyweid' (apartheid/genocide) - Shukeiri/Qaddoumi - on pro-nazi Arab Palestine WW2, neo-Nazi linked Issa Nakhleh, etc. (And how accusers discredit themselves) / Projection - sounds...

The United Nations has decided that Britain has not grovelled enough. After years of toppled statues, boarded-up war memorials and official lectures about “colonialism,” a UN human-rights committee now wants the country that ended the Atlantic slave trade to fill its public squares with statues of “people of African descent,” The globalist body also suggests Britain should rewrite what children are taught, and treat historic slavery as a live brief for migration policy and hate-speech enforcement. This comes in the form of formal “reparatory justice” guidance from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, published six months after...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups. Friday’s resolution, which was sponsored by Togo and backed by members of the African Union, was passed with 164 member states voting in favor. Only the US voted against it while six other countries — Serbia, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine — abstained. The vote encourages governments and institutions around the world to replace the traditional Mercator map, commonly used since the 16th Century, with...

A U.N. committee warned Monday a host countries are legally bound to offer immediate cash settlements as reparations for the transatlantic slave trade alongside other yet to be determined measures – including, but not limited to “truth commissions” – to address the “enduring legacy of racial discrimination” it cautions still envelops the world to this day. The beneficiaries will be “people of African descent.”

Obama Used National Security to Spy on Americans Opposed to Islamic Terrorists Obamagate redefined opposition to Islamic terrorism as a national security threat. Mon Jun 8, 2020 Daniel Greenfield 55 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. We know when Obamagate ended, but we don’t know when the policy of spying on Americans began. The tangled roots of the domestic surveillance of political opponents by the NSA predate the alarmism about Russia. Tracing them back into the fetid swamp takes us not toward...

The U.S. delegation briefly walked out of a United Nations Security Council meeting during France's address in protest on Monday after the European ally criticized America’s human rights record. Dan Negrea, an alternate U.S. representative to the U.N., accused France of feigning “moral outrage” while pretending to lecture the world about the Ukraine conflict and human rights in general. “That is why we walked out during France's intervention,” he said during a meeting on Russia's war in Ukraine. “This disingenuous grandstanding is tiresome, but we have tolerated it out of a sense of camaraderie and mutual respect as P5 members.”...

The US delegation walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, in protest at comments made by France that compared Washington's voting on human rights to that of authoritarian states. The diplomatic row was initially sparked last week, when the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending Volker Turk's term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. After the vote on Friday, France's UN mission criticised the US and compared it to North Korea and Russia. "The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore," it posted on X. In response, US...

Hamas terrorists on Saturday forcibly entered a World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution site in Jabaliya, forcing the suspension of distributions that had provided daily assistance to thousands of families. According to United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Humanitarian Coordinator Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, humanitarian workers were forced to halt food distributions after armed personnel affiliated with Hamas authorities forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalyia, northern Gaza. “The forces also entered a WFP warehouse and reportedly assaulted two truck drivers who were delivering humanitarian supplies," he said. Alakbarov strongly condemned what...