{"id":18695,"date":"2024-11-24T19:46:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18695"},"modified":"2024-11-24T19:46:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:46:37","slug":"archbishop-urges-osce-foreign-ministers-to-strive-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18695","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop urges OSCE foreign ministers to strive for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Archbishop Charles Scicluna on Sunday urged foreign affairs ministers who will meet in Malta for an upcoming OSCE meeting to ensure they strive for peace while here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s pray for this meeting to not just be\u00a0a photo op, where people smile at each other and things remain as they are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s pray so that we are instruments of peace just like we were in 1989 &#8211; a place where nations meet for genuine talks and to work for peace,&#8221; Mgr Scicluna told the congregation at the Basilica of Christ the King in Paola.<\/p>\n<p>The Archdiocese of Malta celebrated the <a href=\"https:\/\/church.mt\/celebration-of-christ-the-king-24th-november-2024-5pm\/#:~:text=Celebration%20of%20Christ%20the%20King,2024%2C%205pm%20%E2%80%93%20Archdiocese%20of%20Malta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">feast of Christ the King<\/a> on Sunday at the basilica at 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>On December 5 and 6, the island will host the ministerial council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign affairs ministers from the 57 OSCE participating states will meet in Malta for this 31st ministerial council.<\/p>\n<p>Malta\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg currently occupies the rotating office of chairperson for OSCE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among others, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be among the attendees in his first EU visit since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<section id=\"authors-info\" class=\"au-Authors_Info\"\/>\n            <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/politics.einnews.com\/article\/763436531\/J4_hAnLo2TGIlWgY?ref=rss&amp;ecode=kmfm9fDbRbj4OPCJ\">politics.einnews.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Charles Scicluna on Sunday urged foreign affairs ministers who will meet in Malta for an upcoming OSCE meeting to ensure they strive for peace while here. &#8220;Let&#8217;s pray for this meeting to not just be\u00a0a photo op, where people smile at each other and things remain as they are. &#8220;Let&#8217;s pray so that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}