The U.S. State Department’s Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs says religious literacy is at the heart of educated citizenship and that interfaith interaction in the classroom and on the soccer field can build healthy, pluralist societies. Shaun Casey was in Rome this week at a conference (see picture) and also spoke to Vatican Radio’s ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 31 May, 2016 | Topics:
Human Rights, Interviews, Key Officials, News
| Tags: 9/11, interfaith dialogue, Religion and Global Affairs, Shaun Casey, Vatican Radio
Knox Thames, Special Adviser for Religious Minorities in the Near East and South and Central Asia, visited Rome to meet with Vatican officials about preventing religious persecution in the Middle East. Speaking to journalists, he laid out the challenges for Christian communities in Iraq, for whom the “door is closing” due to persecution by the ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 26 May, 2016 | Topics:
Human Rights, Key Officials, Near East & North Africa, News
| Tags: Iraq, Islamic State, Knox Thames, religious minorities, Vatican Radio
The Embassy of the United States of America to the Holy See organized and sponsored a conflict prevention training at the
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). The participants, women religious working in areas affected by conflict, focused on strategic planning, conflict analysis frameworks and problem solving in the search for peaceful resolutions to conflict. The highly interactive training on peacebuilding, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 16 May, 2016 | Topics:
Embassy, Events, Former U.S. Ambassadors, Human Rights, Speeches
| Tags: Angelicum, conflict, Conflict resolution, grants, sisters, UISG, United States Institute of Peace, women religious
The Embassy of the United States of America to the Holy See sponsored the launch of the book
Preaching Justice Volume II, a collection of writing that documents the contribution of Dominican Sisters to social ethics in the 20th century. Several of the book’s contributors wrote about how the Dominican Sisters have built peace across the world, resisting oppression and promoting healthcare while working ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 13 May, 2016 | Topics:
Education, Embassy, Events, Human Rights
| Tags: Dominican Sisters, grants, Preaching Justice, sisters, South Africa
Care for the environment and international religious freedom were at the forefront of an Embassy-sponsored conference on the shared policy interests of the United States and the Holy See this week. The conference, “On Care for Our Common Home: U.S. and Vatican Engagement on Global Issues,” brought together Embassy and Vatican officials as well as ...
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By U.S. Embassy Holy See | 13 April, 2016 | Topics:
Alumni, Embassy, Environment, Events, Featured Event, Former U.S. Ambassadors, Human Rights, Scholarships and Exchanges, Success Stories, U.S. & Holy See
| Tags: diplomacy, grants, integral ecology, international religious freedom, International Visitor Leadership Program, IRF, IVLP, Laudato Si, Vatican
