Call for Hope and Dignity for Every Child

In a telegram sent to the United Nation's in Geneva today, Pope Benedict XVI added his voice to the call for hope and dignity for every child, as the UN marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The a document has been ratified by all but two countries of the world, Somalia and the United States - and Somalia would has signed and ratified it if there would have been a proper government in place. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi is the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations in Geneva says two decades on, many of the goals enshrined in that convention are denied on a daily basis

Source:Ecoterra, June 4, 2009

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