407:. The statement declares that "urgent help is needed: Especially necessary is that the pressure of world opinion not fall, so that all the violence and discrimination ends immediately." The statement suggests the future of minorities depends on international attention. "Moreover, it is hoped that the local authorities will not fail to attempt anything to guarantee the defenseless all the protection to which they are entitled, precisely in virtue of their Iraqi citizenship, which they have never betrayed," it continues. "Christians request that they be able to live their life in tranquility and profess their faith with total security, a basic condition of every civilization."
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443:. In April Chullikatt praised the U.N.'s plan to eradicate poverty, emphasising the importance of the family in encouraging development and in fighting poverty. In eradicating poverty "we do not need to reinvent the wheel," Chullikatt said in a 31 March statement. "Setting a development agenda for the next 15 years is a powerful gesture of intergenerational solidarity. The future we want becomes, then, the future we want for our children and our children’s children."
371:. He speaks English, Italian, French and Spanish. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 15 July 1988. He served in the papal representations in Honduras, in various countries of southern Africa, in the Philippines, at the United Nations in New York from 2000 to 2004, where he served as a Counsellor at the Holy See's Mission to the United Nations and, finally, in the Secretariat of State in the Vatican.
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403:"have paid a high price, despite their unanimously recognized peaceful life." He continued saying "One has the impression that the reason to attack these minorities is strictly and only their religious faith or their different ethnic membership," the nunciature note continues. "Many Christians live in fear of staying in the territory which has seen
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In March 2010 Chullikatt said that "any attempt to decrease the
Christian presence or worse, to destroy the Christian presence in Iraq would mean destroying the history of the Iraqi nation." He noted that all the Christian churches and Christian leaders in the country are involved in interreligious
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disproportionate harm. Nor can their use meet the rigorous standards of the Just War principles' moral assessment of the use of force.... Viewed from a legal, political, security and most of all – moral – perspective, there is no justification for the continued maintenance of nuclear weapons."
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dialogue and are in constant contact with Muslim leaders. Chullikatt said that international solidarity is crucial for the survival of Iraq's minorities, "especially the
Christians who are most exposed to the kind of violence taking place now, particularly in Mosul."
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During his service as a permanent observer at the UN, several employees of the Holy See's mission at the UN reported him to the
Vatican for underpayment and improper treatment, and only on March 11, 2019, appeared on the portal
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a text titled "Former UN envoy’s tenure described as ‘horror story’ for staff". On 1 July 2014 Chullikatt resigned from his post at the UN without receiving another assignment. He spent a semester as a fellow at
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November 2012 Chullikatt welcomed the General Assembly vote which gave majority approval to Palestine becoming a Non-member Observer State of the United Nations. In January 2014 Chullikatt spoke before the
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a priest on 3 June 1978. He continued his studies and received a
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from 17 July 2010 until 1 July 2014. He previously served as
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He was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq and Jordan and
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Permanent observers of the Holy See to the United Nations
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Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro
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Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
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Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
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List of heads of the diplomatic missions of the Holy See
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Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
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Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
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Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
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Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
543:"Nuncio Decries "Endless" String of Deaths in Iraq"
396:or "By the power of faith" as his episcopal motto.
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1019:Apostolic Nuncio to Montenegro
976:24 June 2016 – 01 October 2022
973:Apostolic Nuncio to Kyrgyzstan
950:Apostolic Nuncio to Tajikistan
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812:"Rinunce e nomine, 01.10.2022"
790:"Rinunce e Nomine, 24.06.2016"
768:"Rinunce e Nomine, 30.04.2016"
601:Viehland, N.J. (2 July 2014).
580:"Rinunce e Nomine, 17.07.2010"
510:"Rinunce e Nomine, 29.04.2006"
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851:29 April 2006 – 17 July 2010
1074:21st-century Roman Catholics
1069:20th-century Roman Catholics
423:Chullikatt was appointed as
405:them present for 2,000 years
1124:Christian clergy from Kochi
1094:Apostolic nuncios to Jordan
905:17 July 2010 – 1 July 2014
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874:Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan
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178:Pedro López Quintana
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357:diocese of Verapoly
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