Donald Trump, US president, and Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, Pasay City, Nov. 13, 2017. The Philippines, despite insulting and threatening UN Human Rights Council experts, the author says, is up for re-election as a member of the UN body. ROBINSON NINAL JR./PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO
If more emphasis were put on carbon pricing, human consumption of natural resources could shift toward more sustainability across the world, the author argues. Fracking for gas, such as in Pennsylvania, above, perpetuates a fossil-fuel-driven economy and global warming. JOHN PENNEY
An LGBT rights rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new rule from the State Department requires that all foreign nationals working in the United States for international organizations, like the UN, to be married in order for their same-sex spouses to receive a visa. CREATIVE COMMONS
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, signing a book of condolences for the death of Theo-Ben Gurirab, an ex-prime minister of Namibia and president of the 54th session of the General Assembly, July 20, 2018. RICK BAJORNAS
An Indian peacekeeper for the UN mission in southern Lebanon monitors the Blue Line near the town of Cheebba, Jan. 31, 2018. The negotiations to renew the UN operation were calmer this year than last year, says the author, but the “bellicose rhetoric” of the United States could return. PASQUAL GORRIZ/UN PHOTO
For the first time, students from the West Bank met students from Gaza through an Unrwa summer program. Here, they say farewell after a camping activity, July 20, 2017. The US decision to end funding to the UN agency that administers to Palestinian refugees will damage everyone in the region, including Israel, the author argues. FADI THABET/UNRWAY
It is entirely the United States’ prerogative to cut off its voluntary contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or Unrwa.
The Jan. 21, 2017, women’s marches across America protesting the new presidency of Trump inspired similarly minded marches throughout the world, but the epicenter was in Washington, D.C., above. CREATIVE COMMONS
The soul of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being destroyed with the disappearance of human-rights justice in the world. Everyone should be concerned if not frightened.
Amina Mohamed, right, the UN deputy secretary-general, and Ekhlas Bajoo, a Yazidi survivor and activist, Nov. 7, 2017. Not one ISIS fighter has been prosecuted for genocide despite the range of crimes they committed in that realm. MARK GARTEN/UN PHOTO
Justine Masika Bihamba, who runs a women’s rights group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, told the UN Security Council on July 26, 2018, that the UN peacekeeping mission there can no longer afford to pay for human-rights experts on the ground, a result of budget cuts recently approved by the UN General Assembly. JOE PENNEY
In this intro video that sets the stage for the full lecture on St. Athanasius’ apologetic work, Ad Gentes or Against the Heathen, we do a presuppositional critique of paganism. If there’s no Thomistic “natural theology” or generic theism, then a different apologetic characterizes Orthodoxy.
