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Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace, Pontifical Academy for Life Sign MoU

The Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace signed an MoU with the Pontifical Academy for Life, establishing a collaborative partnership. WAM
The Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace signed an MoU with the Pontifical Academy for Life, establishing a collaborative partnership. WAM
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Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace, Pontifical Academy for Life Sign MoU

The Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace signed an MoU with the Pontifical Academy for Life, establishing a collaborative partnership. WAM
The Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace signed an MoU with the Pontifical Academy for Life, establishing a collaborative partnership. WAM

The Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace signed an MoU with the Pontifical Academy for Life - a Pontifical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to promoting the Church's consistent life ethic- establishing a collaborative partnership focused on addressing ethical issues in R&D.

The MoU was signed as Shaikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, Chairman of the UAE Fatwa Council and Head of the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace met in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday President of the Pontifical Academy for Life Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia,
The meeting emphasized the importance of collaborative action for peace based on appreciating shared human values and beliefs, as well as reinstating peace ideals and friendship principles rather than strife and conflict.

Paglia said during the meeting that the Emirati model of tolerance is one that other nations should take cues from, lauding what he observed in the UAE as the practical embodiment of the virtues of tolerance and human fraternity and maintaining the values of life and human dignity.

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UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
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UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File

The Saint Hilarion complex, one of the oldest monasteries in the Middle East, has been put on the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites in danger due to the war in Gaza, the body said Friday.
UNESCO said the site, which dates back to the fourth century, had been put on the endangered list at the demand of Palestinian authorities and cited the "imminent threats" it faced.
"It's the only recourse to protect the site from destruction in the current context," Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, told AFP, referring to the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
In December, the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict decided to grant "provisional enhanced protection" -- the highest level of immunity established by the 1954 Hague Convention -- to the site.
UNESCO had then said it was "already concerned about the state of conservation of sites, before October 7, due to the lack of adequate policies to protect heritage and culture" in Gaza.
The Hamas attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas has killed at least 39,175 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.