{"id":958265,"date":"2026-07-25T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/958265\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:02:32","slug":"pope-appoints-new-holy-see-permanent-observer-to-un-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/958265\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope appoints new Holy See Permanent Observer to UN in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis as the Holy See&#8217;s new Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, where he will represent the Holy See at the UN headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><b>Vatican News<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis as the Holy See&#8217;s new Permanent Observer to the United Nations (UN) in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment was announced on Saturday by the Holy See Press Office.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese-born Archbishop El-Kassis, Titular Archbishop of Roselle, has until now served as Apostolic Nuncio to the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, as well as Apostolic Delegate to the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>He was ordained in 1994, and he entered the Holy See diplomatic service in 2000, working in Indonesia, Sudan, Turkey, and the Secretariat of State.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy See maintains Permanent Observer status at the United Nations, enabling it to participate in the work of the General Assembly and other UN bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis as the Holy See&#8217;s new Permanent Observer to the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":958266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,57585,121499,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3417,31689,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-958265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-appointments","tag-holy-see","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-un","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116980517816629470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}